CZ:Reusing Citizendium Content
This is a proposed policy for the transfer of content from Citizendium (CZ) to Wikipedia (WP) and vice versa. It is in no way official policy.
Preamble
The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) was designed for books, not wikis, so its use in a wiki is rather clunky. The Citizendium therefore decided to use a similar but simpler license, the Creative Commons By Attribution Share Alike (CC-by-sa). The Creative Commons, Wikipedia and Free Software Foundations are working on making these licenses mutually compatible, so eventually content should be able to be moved between CZ and WP freely (with attribution). However, the GFDL and CC-by-sa are currently incompatible, so CZ articles which contain no content from WP may not be ported to WP. Articles which do contain content from WP are portable, but you must credit Citizendium (see below for details).
Instructions for Wikipedians transfering content from Citizendium
Look at the bottom of the CZ article you want to get content from, immediately above the categories. If the text "some content on this page may previously have appeared on Wikipedia" is present , the article is under GFDL (example: Cobalt), otherwise it is under CC-by-sa (example: Biology). For a list of articles that came from outside CZ, most which came from WP, see Category:External_Articles.
Content licensed under the GFDL may be imported into WP, however, you must credit either Citizendium or the principal authors at the bottom of the article. Credit in the edit summary and/or talk page is not sufficient. See Wikipedia's copyright page or the bottom of Cobalt for examples of how to credit material that's borrowed from another Wiki. Wikipedia has a template ({{Cz}}) which should be used for giving credit to Citizendium.
Until the licenses are made compatible, content licensed under CC-by-sa may not be imported into WP unless you receive permission from all the authors.
Citizens, like Wikipedians, retain copyright to their work. Therefore, if all the authors of an article (whether CC-by-sa of GFDL) give permission, you can reuse CZ content under the GFDL or any other terms agreed to by the authors.
Wikipedians may also be interested in Wikipedia's page on importing from Citizendium.
Instructions for Citizens transfering content from Wikipedia
See CZ:How_to_convert_Wikipedia_articles_to_Citizendium_articles.
Links
- Larry Sanger's essay on the license terms and motivations.
- Wikipedia wants attribution too: WP's copyright policy
Meta
Feel free to be bold and edit this page. Use this forum thread to discuss this proposal.