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Technically, as I understand it, the copying of WP articles to WE without showing the license is illegal. Wayne made a useful suggestion which is to add Template:WikipediaContent to those articles. What do you think? Sincerely, James
Great Idea Jtneill. Lets make it a rule from now on.
Hi Minhaaj,
I noted your reversion of my addition of a link to Wikipedia content on Joomla here - http://www.wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Joomla&curid=27370&diff=167239&oldid=164925. The idea for use of this template is to provide a helpful link to Wikipedia content on the topic, not to indicate that content has been copied from Wikipedia. For example, see http://www.wikieducator.org/Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Wikipedia for a list of other pages which use the template (and which do not contain content copied from Wikipedia). I would also encourage you to "make good" on your apparent committment above to provide appropriate licensing details for content which you've copied from Wikipedia and added to WE.
Sincerely, James
Hi Minhaaj,
Just touching base to see how you're going with adding appropriate licensing tags to content you copied from Wikipedia? Let me know if I can help or if you'd like to discuss further. But note that unless the appropriate tags are added, I think it would be in the WE community interests to delete content which violates the original copyright license. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 10:24, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Minhaaj, Congratulations on your election to the WE council! Just noting here that there is a related thread on the WE discussion list: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/8236c87726096914. I'm interested to hear your views.
