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).
Currently, the GFDL and cc-by-sa are incompatible, so CZ articles which contain no content from WP may not be ported to WP. Articles which do contain content from WP are .
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
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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights#Reusers.27_rights_and_obligations">page</a> or the bottom of Cobalt for examples of how to credit material.
Until the licenses are made compatible, content licensed under cc-by-sa may not be imported into WP unless you ask permission of all the authors.
Instructions for Citizens transfering content from Wikipedia
See CZ:How_to_convert_Wikipedia_articles_to_Citizendium_articles.
Links
- Larry Sanger's <a href="http://www.citizendium.org/czlicense.html#Our%20license%20and%20license%20procedure">essay</a> on the license terms and motivations.
- Wikipedia wants attribution too: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights#Reusers.27_rights_and_obligations">WP's copyright policy</a>
Talk
Treat the rest of this page as a talk page for discussing this proposal. Warren Schudy 17:14, 3 January 2008 (CST)