MediaWiki talk:History copyright

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An admin needs to fix the link on the page -- it currently reads GFDL.

Format it like this: GFDL or GFDL.

GFDL or  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 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.

See also Wikipedia talk:Copyright violations on history pages.

Martin 16:01, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Can somebody please remove the extraneous  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. — Bcat  ( talk •  email ) 16:24, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

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: 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 GFDL, which is reproduced solely under the Section 108 archival exemption. Subject to that exception, all text authored by Wikipedia contributors is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.)
 * This version of the page has been revised.
 * Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a US-registered 501(c)(3) <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)

editprotected
please update the cc-by-sa-3.0 ,thanks!-218.103.196.186 (talk) 08:07, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I've fixed the link that wasn't working. Apart from that, can you be more specific about what you want changed? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:11, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 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)

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

Protected edit request on 24 September 2023
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 (<sup style="color:#007eb3">speak  &#124; edits) 19:48, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ — xaosflux  Talk 01:34, 1 October 2023 (UTC)