Wikipedia:Annotated edit page announcement (proposal)/rev. 1.1

Modified Proposed Version (rev. 1.1/Sept.8/03)

Please note that changes are marked with underlines and (date in italics after the change) see annotations below.

1. All contributions submitted here are released
2. under the [[GFU Free Documentation License]],
3. see [[{Project name}:Copyrights and Warranty Disclaimers]] for details.
4. By clicking save you affirm the copyright owner(s)
5. of all submitted material agrees to these terms this license; (Sept. 8, 2003)
6. you further affirm, to the best of your knowledge, that such text is not defamatory
7. or in violation of any law; you also agree to
8. [[{project name}:indemnify|indemnify]] {project name},
9. all other volunteers and [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
10. for any and all claims connected with your submission
11. and are bound by the [[{project name}: terms and conditions Submission Guildlines]]. (Sept. 8, 2003)
12. Your submission here must be written by yourself,
13. in the public domain or from a similar copyright free source,
14. or used with explicit permission listed on the associated talk page in the summary box on this edit page (Sept. 8, 2003)
15. otherwise it will be removed.
16. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!
17. YOUR WRITING MAY BE EDITED MERCILESSLY AND REDISTRIBUTED AT WILL.

Each line above will be cited as R(X) where X is the line number.

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Annotations

Please note that changes are marked with underlines and date in italics.

1. O(1) is modified as it does not uniquivocally state that the publication on Wikipedia is under the GFDL. R(1) states that the are released creating no ambigious interpretation regarding the condition that must precedent before the submission can be accepted.
2. O(2) and R(2) are identical; no change is necessary (or possible).
3. O(3) is modified to include Warranty Disclaimers that are allowed in the final paragraph of Section Zero of the GFDL. Any Warranty Disclaimers must be referenced next to the licence notice; R(3) accounts for this; such disclaimers are used to state that Wikipedia cannot control user submissions, they are reviewed for possible copyright infringement; some material (such as images) may be fair use and no warranty is given; also any information may be inaccurate or even defamatory; Wikipedia volunteeers try to take all steps within their power to remove anything that is not copyright by the person submitting it or for which copyright has been obtained; it is the responsibility of any subsequent GFDL licensee (or any person viewing the project pages) to determine that for themselves. No warranty whatsoever is given for the copyright status of talk pages, users pages or page histories. For some discussion on Warranty Disclaimers go here. typo terms changed to this license (added Sept. 8, 2003)).
4. O(4) and O(5) have been modified and placed at the end of the revised boilerplate at R(17).
5. O(6), the promise is made into an affirmation in R(4) and R(5) either binding because the person submitting is the author or has the authorization of the author(s) to make such affirmation.
6. O(7), the language is strengthened in R(13) to R(15) and R(15) states the penalty (i.e. removal of the text) and requiring that explicit permissions be stated on talk pages in the summary box (Sept. 8, 2003) This makes it easier to see the permission in the edit history without searching for it on talk pages, see the discussion here on the User Talk:Alex756/Annotated edit page announcement.
7. O(8), the text is repeated in the revised version in BOLD CAPS at R(16).
8. R(6) requiring an affirmation that the text is not defamatory (if it is it can obviously be removed immediately) made on personal knowledge. (added Sept 8, 2003)
9. R(7) or in violation of any other law (that includes all intellectual property laws, privacy, publicity, trademark, unfair competition, or any other kind of tort such as intentional interference with contractual relations, or any other laws). Thus, if in the unlikely event that someone posts an insider trading tip on Wikipedia or states that a certain company has bad service, etc. all this is covered; the material can be removed ASAP and the indemnification can kick in. also made on personal knowledge. (added Sept 8, 2003)
10. R(8) to R(10) indemnification requires that if someone sues Wikimedia or a one of its projects (as an association) or even its volunteers Wikipedia can go after the person posting (if we can track them down that is); so if Wikimedia project has a problem it has some level of protection (as long as we can track someone down to their real identity, but we have years to do that).
11. R(11) the project terms and conditions Submission Guidelines will vary depending on the project, but it will allow Wikimedia to prevent postings that violate any specific laws that might apply to texts that are seen outside the United States; terms and conditions Submission Guidelines can also state that even though the submission is released it can (and most likely will) be changed, modified, edited, deleted or combined by subsequent users; that there can be no warranty regarding submission to any Wikimedia project beyond the immediate availability under the GFDL until the next edit is made by someone else or it is removed for a violation; acceptance is conditional on complying with the terms of the submission agreement (i.e. clear copyright, or GFDL permission or public domain status). Anything that might be fair use may be deleted or modified so as to be a creative and non-infringing adaptation of the original work; and only the current version of a page is released under GFDL, all prior edits have been retired into the page history archives; the only allowable use of those pages is fair use under US copyright law (this may be a contentious issue, but it seems good policy as there are many fair use pages in the page history that might be copyright infringements if they were on the regularly released pages). It may also be a good idea to have the terms and conditions linked to from each page history. On Sept. 8, 2003 changed terms and conditions to Submission Guidelines has a better ring to it, and is more accurate, may refer to them as terms in the revised text. Also something needs to be stated about minors as discussed on the mailing list [1].

The indemnification page, warranty disclaimers, terms and conditions mentioned above will be drafted and discussed through the regular Wikipedia process of discussion.

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