disclaimer section and interlingal compatibility
"Tomos at Wikipedia" <[email protected]>
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Hello. I have some questions regarding disclaimers that is added to en. wikipedia recently. At Japanese wikipedia, some of us have been discussing about introducing disclaimer section, but deterring the introduction because of some legal questions (as follows). Any advice or opinion would be appreciated. 1. Should we take it as the disclaimers as defined/ described in GFDL? For example, should we take it something that we have to preserve when we modify the GFDL'd work? (see 4-O of GFDL ver.1.2) 2. What is the implications of the disclaimer to inter-lingual or inter-project transfer of contents? Has there been any discussion? If "the whole wikipedia" or "all the wikimedia projects" are NOT the one and single work as defined in GFDL, but instead independent articles, images, and other files are the works, the following might not be in compliance of GFDL. *copyng a page from Wikipedia to Wiktionary/Wikisource without preserving the disclaimer section when the page has a disclaimer which is different from Wiktionary/Wikisource's. *copying an image from one language Wikipedia to another without preserving the disclaimer section. *chaniging the content of disclaimer section. 3. Would you say that we should develop disclaimer that is exactly the same as en. which seems to be already in place? Or we should develop disclaimer as we see fit and try to coordinate/combine with other language-wikipedias' later in some ways? Has there been this kind of discussion in other language-wikipedias? I checked fr. and de., but did not find disclaimer section. Zh (chenese) does have one, it seems. Regards, Tomos _________________________________________________________________ Take advantage of our limited-time introductory offer for dial-up Internet access. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup