MediaWiki talk:Copyright-footer-history

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An admin needs to fix the link on the page -- it currently reads <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU _Free_Documentation_License">GFDL</a>.

Format it like this: GFDL or GFDL.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License GFDL]

or

 [[Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License|GFDL]]

-24.119.67.20 16:57, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The motives for the creation of this was to remove the need for any kind of wikipedia:terms of use - the thinking being that merely reading the encyclopedia should not have terms of use. I don't object to that.

The initial version was somewhat longer. However, it was considered more legally scary, so a shorter version was found. It mentions the name of the law (section 108) to remove ambiguity, and because we trust Alex756's judgement. The law required a "possibly copyrighted" notice, so we put that in too.

Martin 16:01, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Can somebody please remove the extraneous </b> from this message? It makes the view and edit pages of old versions of articles invalid, which breaks Sam Hocevar's very useful godmode-light script [1]. — Bcat ^{(talk • email)} 16:24, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

GFDL

I think we should incorporate the text of MediaWiki:Copyright here. Most importantly, the GFDL requires a notice that the material is under that license, even on these archived pages. I realize this is somewhat contradictory to the warning that material may infringe third-party copyright. I'm also wondering why the reference to section 108 was removed. Thus, I was thinking of something like this:

This version of the page has been <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_history" title="Wikipedia:Page history">revised</a>.
Besides normal editing, the reason for revision may have been that this version contains
factual inaccuracies or vandalism. Also, it may include material incompatible with the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License">GFDL</a>, which is reproduced solely under the <a href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000108----000-.html">Section 108</a> archival exemption. Subject to that exception, all text authored by Wikipedia contributors is available under the terms of the <a class='internal' href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License">GNU Free Documentation License</a>. (See <a class='internal' href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights" title="Wikipedia:Copyrights">Copyrights</a> for details.)

Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the <a href="http://www.wikimediafoundation.org">Wikimedia Foundation, Inc</a>., a US-registered <a class='internal' href="/wiki/501%28c%29" title="501(c)(3)">501(c)(3)</a> <a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Deductibility_of_donations">tax-deductible</a> <a class='internal' href="/wiki/Non-profit_organization" title="Non-profit organization">nonprofit</a> <a href="/wiki/Charitable_organization" title="Charitable organization">charity</a>.

What do you think? Superm401 - Talk 05:45, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

editprotected

{{editprotected}} please update the cc-by-sa-3.0 ,thanks!-218.103.196.186 (talk) 08:07, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed the link that wasn't working. Apart from that, can you be more specific about what you want changed? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:11, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Also, Martin, Wikitext doesn't work in this message (anymore?), so I placed absolute links to the (unsecure) pages. Amalthea 16:50, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request

Should link to Help:Page history. --Homerland (talk) 00:07, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Protected edit request on 24 September 2023

This edit request to MediaWiki:History copyright has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

Please change "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License" to "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License".

The Wikipedia license has been upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0 (also see site footer changed by WMF). ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 19:48, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done — xaosflux ^Talk 01:34, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]