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== Articles That Need Improvement ==


= ¡CreativeCrommonsLicense for the wiki! =
* Articles [[:Category:Stubs|marked as stubs]] need to be expanded.


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* [[:Category:Articles Needing Cleanup|Articles that need cleanup]] need to be rewritten for one reason or another in order to fit with [[Help:Policies|our policies]]. Typically, the articles are missing references, are using logical fallacies, have horrible formatting, or have other problems.


¡Hello!
== Requested Articles (Red Links) ==


¿How fare you?
* See [[Special:Wantedpages|the wanted pages list]] for a list articles that haven't yet been written and yet have been linked to.
 
I notice that you added a wiki to StarDestroyer.Net.  ¡This is great!  I love the debate between the two camps.
 
Now to the nitty-gritty:
 
I have experience on wikis.  I run [http://intactwiki.org IntactWiki.Org, ] a wiki devoted to genital integrity.  To cut to the chase, copyrightlaw is like a timebomb.  Basically, every contributer to the wiki retains copyright on all of their contributions.  Someone might contribute all over the wiki and an year later demand its removal for anyone of of a million reasons.  You will find that you will have no choice but to revert the wiki to a copyrightclean state.  That is a massive multi-year rollback.  Basically, you would have to discard years of work by thousands of contributors.  Over a million hours of work could go down the drain.
 
¿What should you do?:
 
[http://CreativeCommons.Org/ CreativeCommons.Org ] created licenses for this.  Basically, you can tell the crazy contributor:
 
“¡You accepted the license, so bug off!”
 
This raises the the question"
 
“¿Which CreativeCommonsLicense to use?”
 
One should not paint oneself into a corner.  Many people with wikis about commercial series use noncommercial licenses so that they will not get sued by the owners for making money.  I do not believe that this is necessary since the debate about Star Wars Versus Star Trek is so peripheral that it is pretty safe.  If one does not use the NC-clause, one can offset the cost of the wiki by running ads or even publishing it as a book.
 
Contributors feel betrayed if their contributions disappear into a proprietary forks.  I recommend using the ShareAlike-clause.  I recommend using [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC-BY-SA: ]
 
* - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
 
¡Peace!
 
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[[User:Walabio|Walabio]] 22:53, 10 November 2007 (EST)
 
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Articles That Need Improvement

  • Articles that need cleanup need to be rewritten for one reason or another in order to fit with our policies. Typically, the articles are missing references, are using logical fallacies, have horrible formatting, or have other problems.

Requested Articles (Red Links)

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