142.177.41.102 at 21:23, 7 September 2004

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''Censored from [[Wikipedia]] by [[sysop vandalism]] because it does not reflect [[Sysop Vandal point of view]]. See [[Talk:sysop vandalism]] for more.''

The '''GFDL corpus''' is the [[corpus]] of all materials released under the [[GNU Free Documentation License]]. It includes all the [[Wikipedia]]s, [[Wiktionary]] and other projects over which [[Wikimedia]] claims editorial jurisdiction. It also includes many that are not under supervision of these people.

There is some controversy over how much influence [[Wikipedia:Itself]] should exercise over the '''corpus''' and whether, given its central position relative to other access providers, and its claims to be encyclopedic, it has special responsibility to avoid applying arbitrary criteria to its editorial decisions.

While [[GNU]] itself considered a [[GNUpedia]] it has generally withdrawn from this effort to support [[Wikipedia]]. However it is not clear that it has acceded to standards set by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] re: which edits or which contributors should be supported or not:

The terms of the [[GFDL]] itself are quite clear that any improvement to the '''corpus''' must be made available to all. This seems at present only practically possible via edits to the [[Wikipedia]] and related projects. In this view, [[Wikipedia violates GFDL]] by refusing any encyclopedic edits based on [[ad hominem]] or other sorts of factional or personal arguments. This has been a major source of controversy among the various [[open content]] efforts including [[Wikinfo]], [[Consumerium]], [[Disinfopedia]] and [[Wikipedia:Itself]], all of whom have quite different standards - but of which only [[Wikipedia]] claims the right to apply strictly [[ad hominem]] rules to determine '''who edits'''.

The matter has yet to be tested in court.

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142.177.41.102 at 21:23, 7 September 2004