Appropedia talk:Encyclopedic material

Attributing Appropedia on Wikipedia[edit source]

If someone transwikis an article from Appropedia to Wikipedia, the Wikipedia article should attribute Appropedia as a source of freely licensed content. This reduces the chance that someone on Wikipedia would delete the content as a copyright violation, especially if the material on Wikipedia is a verbatim copy of material that appeared first on Appropedia. Wikipedia contains content from many public domain and free content sources. See wikipedia:Category:Attribution templates. Ideally someone should make an attribution template on Wikipedia to mark articles that contain content originally from Appropedia. The licensing appears compatible; see:

I am not a lawyer, but it seems allowable for the dual-licensed Wikipedia to use material from the single-licensed Appropedia, since Appropedia uses Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA-3.0).

The page might also mention that creating new articles that stick on Wikipedia is hard. Wikipedia deletes^W thousands of articles for violating its large number of rules for content. Thus one should not regard transwiki'ing to Wikipedia as just a simple copying operation. It's more like an experiment to see if the article will stick there. --Teratornis 17:13, 16 January 2011 (PST)

The terms of Appropedia's (and Wikipedia's) licensing require that the list of contributors to any transwikied content be preserved. The simplest way to do that is to keep the transwikied page up on Appropedia rather than deleting it, so the Wikipedia page can link back to the page history^W on Appropedia. If Appropedia deletes an article after transwikiing it to Wikipedia, then we have to export^W the whole page history to Wikipedia, to comply with the source attribution requirement of the {{CC-by-sa-3.0}} license. --Teratornis 14:16, 8 February 2011 (PST)

Linking to Wikipedia[edit source]

It would be nice to have a W: interwiki link prefix, in addition to the default Wikipedia: prefix, for linking to pages on Wikipedia. This would be nice when one wants to make a visible link to a project page on Wikipedia where the Wikipedia: project namespace prefix is redundant with the interwiki link prefix. One method is for someone with MySQL access to Appropedia's server to add the prefix with a MySQL command like this:

REPLACE INTO interwiki (iw_prefix,iw_url,iw_local) VALUES
('w', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 0);

assuming Appropedia did not rename the default MediaWiki database table name interwiki. --Teratornis 17:29, 16 January 2011 (PST)

See mw:Manual:Guide to setting up interwiki linking for other methods. --Teratornis 17:35, 16 January 2011 (PST)

After posting the above, I stumbled across Talk:Interwiki map#Missing W: in which Lonny and Chriswaterguy discussed whether to add the w: interwiki link prefix in 2007. --Teratornis 14:24, 8 February 2011 (PST)