Tony Morris
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Um, I don't think adding a credit really solves the problem if the work is copyrighted. Unless the copyright holder agrees to it, which doesn't seem to have occurred here yet. If I publicly post a chapter from the latest Harry Potter, it does't become OK just because i thought to add JK Rowling's name.
Looking at the history of that page, I see that this credit has appeared and disappeared several times in successive edits. I assume that two or more people are engaged in an edit war here.
Offhand I'd think the best thing to do is just replace the entire page with a link to Tony's answer, since at the moment the friki page doesn't seem to add anything original. I'll delay implementing that plan until others have an opportunity to weigh in.
Originally posted by Maximilian Stocker:
Could the page or page that links to the other site be locked for editing?
The other idea is to write new content for this page. Actually I don't think it would be too hard.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
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Originally posted by Gregg Bolinger:
I was editing it and couldn't figure out how to make the external link look like I wanted it to look with the wiki syntax.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
Originally posted by Ilja Preuss:
The syntax is currently very limited. It should improve once we manage to update Friki...
Tony Morris
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Originally posted by Maximilian Stocker:
If such an update is in the cards would it include talk discussion pages? I really like that feature of wikipedia. It a seems good idea to me for having such discussions in the place where the content is rather than having to search around for a thread somewhere else or hope that people even find such thread.
Just a hopeful request.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
Originally posted by Tony Morris:
I'm more hinting at the possibility that if this can occur, then a more significant infringement might also be possible, which could cause problems for all involved.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
Originally posted by Ilja Preuss:
OK, thanks for the clarification!
Of course with a wiki, we can't possibly guarantee that all the content added by arbitrary community members is free of copyrighted material. The same, of course, is true for the forums. I'm not an expert in this matters, but it seems to me that if we react as early as we become aware of a copyright infringement, we should be pretty safe?
Tony Morris
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I agree. Here's the link: http://javaranch.com/programming-pearls.jsp |