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Revision as of 17:41, 22 August 2001
We are encouraged to move Wikipedia articles through the Chalkboard to
Nupedia.
What about transfering Nupedia/Chalkboard articles into Wikipedia ?
Wikipedia would benefit from them and putting them under Wikipedia scrutiny
and authoring/editorial process can only make them better.
--Kpjas
This is a good idea. It is possible, but only if the authors of the Chalkboard articles will agree to it--which they might not. You'd have to ask, or encourage them to make the transfer. You see, at present anyway, the Chalkboard is leaving copyright with the author(s) of the articles. (Perhaps it shouldn't--no one has debated the point yet.) Moving the article from the Chalkboard to Wikipedia constitutes swiping a proprietary article and releasing it under the GNU FDL.
So far, the only reason we do have the copyright provision is to encourage people to work on the Chalkboard who might fear that their work will be misused and misattributed. It's akin to the academic who circulates papers privately and writes "not for general circulation" because he doesn't want to be credited with silly stuff his colleagues will easily catch and which he can work on.
I suppose this concern does not afflict posted Nupedia articles. We are perfectly willing to upload posted Nupedia articles to Wikipedia.
I think these issues do deserve some more thought!
By the way, this page should probably be linked-to from some other page, which it isn't yet.