Value of copying[]
Much material relevant to this project has already been written (some by experts) on Wikipedia:. No need to reinvent the wheel. What we copy can, however, then be improved ad infinitum by the local experts.
For more discussion of this, see Talk:Miscellany and articles-in-progress.
Permission[]
Provided the acknowledgment conforms with agreed standards of detail, copying is perfectly fair.
Simple template for acknowledgment[]
A standard template has been developed. We can use a short-form one, "enWP" (which means material is from the "en" language version of Wikipedia).
To use the template, just use {{enWP|Page Name}} where Page Name is the title of the Wikipedia article (preferably pasted for guaranteed accuracy).
For example {{enWP|Calgary, Alberta}} will expand to:
This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia (view authors). |
(Thanks to User:JamesTeterenko for the above)
I copied the "template" part of the above from the version I wrote on cities: and adapted it a bit. Robin Patterson 00:17, 6 Oct 2005 (UTC)
Dealing with categories and links[]
Categories should be brought over because they are immediately usable. We may change them later.
Links are immediately usable, one way or another. See Talk:Miscellany and articles-in-progress for the options.
If redirecting one to Wikipedia, the quick and not always ideal way is just to add "wikipedia:" after the opening brackets. That produces something that looks like "wikipedia:setnet", which is informative but is a little jarring in a sentence.
To hide the "wikipedia:" part, add a "pipe", eg "[[wikipedia:setnet|]]""
But that doesn't work if there's already a pipe there. Usually you can leave it alone because the normal display will show only what follows the pipe.