User talk:Trödel
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Hello. I'm still learning about writing for Wikipedia or any other form of Wiki. I'm not really sure what the GFDL copyright is. How would becoming GFDL compliant benefit our site and what would it entail? Amaranth|talk 13:20, 6 July 2006 (MDT)
- That is a fairly complex answer but the short version is that Wikipedia, for instance, has a lot of articles that are well written and could be immediately moved over to MormonWiki and edited to be more friendly to the Church. For example see these articles:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_of_Joseph_Smith%2C_Jr.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_temples_of_The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priesthood_%28Mormonism%29
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_%28Mormonism%29 ( I personally wrote alot of this article see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bishop_%28Mormonism%29&action=history so I can copy and paste my own work here)
- Also many of the biographies are done well. See:
- Each of the links has a biography on them already.
- If the license here complied with the requirements of the GFDL then we could wholesale copy over that information - attribute it back with a link in the history to the source on wikipedia and then make as many changes as we want to the text.
- The downside is that anyone could do the same with the text once it is here - if you have GFDL license - then other could copy the text and use it however they want - even on anti-mormon sites. But if the writing is favorable to the LDS Church it should be fine - as they won't want to use it - and could more easily copy the less favorable version on wikipedia.
