Re: Drafting content guidelines for the wiki
On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 08:55:54PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> What are your feelings on what to do with imported content?
Ignoring legality and ethics for a moment, I would definitely want content to
be imported by default. But if the old wiki has no clear license, I don't see
how we can do that without the consent of authors - someone somewhere is bound
to object because they have some axe to grind with Wikipedia.
Searching MoinMoin for "License/Copyright"[0] only shows a handful of results,
so that doesn't really help either.
I've suggested using technology to avoid the issue over in the "MediaWiki next
steps" thread. I'm not sure how feasible that is, but sadly I think the only
alternative is not to import it at all :(
[0] https://wiki.debian.org/?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=License%2FCopyright&fullsearch=Text
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