G'day all. Quoting Ashley Yakeley <ashley@semantic.org>:
Does anyone have any objections to putting everything in the public domain?
No, with the proviso that individual page authors can override that on the page itself. There is a disincentive for authors to do this, because their material may be deleted instead of refactored. On the other hand, I can think of some scenarios where this may be necessary, such as an author republishing material from one of their scientific papers where the publisher holds an odd copyright. While I'd prefer public domain, obviously (it's more useful), I don't think that retaining attribution is an unreasonable request if an author wants it for whatever reason. The MediaWiki Way(tm) to do attribution is not the same as the C2 Way(tm). It would not involve dragging signatures unless it's specifically a discussion page. Would it be possible to manage attribution automatically? Cheers, Andrew Bromage