http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/04/28/this-post-is-fair-use-under-the-i-wanna-clause-of-us-copyright-law/ arrogant pontification Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:50:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/04/28/this-post-is-fair-use-under-the-i-wanna-clause-of-us-copyright-law/comment-page-1/#comment-38 David Gerard Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:17:30 +0000 http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/04/28/this-post-is-fair-use-under-the-i-wanna-clause-of-us-copyright-law/#comment-38 I wrote Practical process as a guide to making process pages that don’t suck. I occasionally go through guideline pages rewriting and tightening and removing the festooned subclauses. But we need a lot more people on the case.

]]> http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/04/28/this-post-is-fair-use-under-the-i-wanna-clause-of-us-copyright-law/comment-page-1/#comment-37 John Schmidt Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:06:42 +0000 http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/04/28/this-post-is-fair-use-under-the-i-wanna-clause-of-us-copyright-law/#comment-37 “How to get someone from there to here in less than geological time?” Since sorting these issues out seems to require large amounts of discussion, the wisdom gained from community discussions of issues such as image use rules should be easy to find in wiki policy pages. However, rather than craft policy pages that function efficiently as learning resources and serve to educate wiki users, we have wiki lawyers who continually seek to turn policy pages into ambiguous and watered-down clumps of legalese that provide little in the way of guidance that is useful and meaningful to most wiki participants. Policy pages should be full of good examples that show how to apply the policies and promote efforts to make a high quality encyclopedia. We could benefit from a school where clueless editors can be sent for orientation and training in how to constructively edit.

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