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Re: Possible Revival of FIRSTwiki?

By the way: a few other Wikipedia-related thoughts.

Wikipedia normally prefers that article editors be somewhat distant from their subjects (to avoid bias). That's why incubating articles in FIRSTWiki is ideal. Using the FIRSTWiki history, it can be demonstrated that multiple independent users (i.e. people from other teams) contributed—so there's no concern that it's a mere promotional piece written by a team member. At that point, it's basically analogous to a subject matter expert writing about another researcher's published work—fair game on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia (and Wikimedia Commons) greatly prefer that images not be (exclusively) GFDL-licenced. Why? Because the GFDL makes you attach a copy of the licence—which is a ridiculous imposition for most ordinary illustrative uses. Right now, FIRSTWiki's images appear to be GFDL-contaminated. Irrespective of any decision on whether to ignore GFDL, FIRSTWiki should take steps to suggest that users licence any new images under CC-BY-SA or CC0 (public domain). In fact, an even better solution would be to have them upload to Wikimedia Commons under one of those licences—that will greatly facilitate re-use. (Only images ineligible for Wikimedia Commons would be uploaded locally.)
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