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Rana ji, Your point is a fair one. I would like to think Jatland wiki is in phase I of the history compilation project, because of the lack of an accurate historical record (as Burdak ji said). Indeed, I find hard to discard Prashant Vaidwan's point about somewhat unlikely theories being...

Let me answer: The site was started in oct 2000. The site has not been sold. It is largely self funding (though we are somewhat cash flow negative). I am no longer involved in the site's management, primarily due to lack of time. I do not come online here nearly enough, and am no longer a mod...

For the all the noise about getting credit, why don't people just go in and make changes themselves! Yes, some of us made wiki contributions that are not reflected in the history tab. Terrible!!! Now that everyone knows, lets get on with it. I do not think it is appropriate to name contributors...

Overall, think it summarizes the discussion... We can provide a link to GFDL, so as not to repeat its details... The second statement is probably incorrect. Jatland does own the copyright, but has decided to (per this policy) share it under GFDL. if there is no copyright, where is the...

My 2 cents... Its closed door to the extent it is not a popularity contest, or a democracy. We have experimented with a poll many years ago and broadly stuck to the mandate. But in hindsight, the process was not really helpful. A domacratic process leads to its own issues - for eg, an implicit...

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Narender, think you might be right on this. We'll exclude the history forum from the auto locking. I've also unlocked all history threads since June 2006. We've also increased the time limit on the other forums to 90 days. Lets see if we need to change settings after 3 months...

Any material a member posts on the site needs to be original work or under a free license or under a fair use clause. To that extent, the member owns the copyright. Of course, it also means the member is responsible for making sure that nothing that is protected by another copyright (exceptions...

The test is 2 months from the latest post, not the earliest. If a topic has not been discussed for over 2 months, it often loses its context, and the original participants are no longer following it. If the topic is consistently pertinent, it will remain active/open. A similar policy is...

Hi Old threads (where the latest post is older than 60 days) are now closed for posting. If you wish to refer to an older thread, paste the link to that thread in a new post... Nitin

If that is the case, we should refer to it. One would like to assume that any "duplicated" content is already refered properly, unless it is made available by the original copyright owner/policy. There is little anyone can do with your presumptions and cynicism. :)

The distinction is trivial at best. Obviously, we do not want to violate anyone elses copyright policy just as we do not want ours to be violated. We should be properly referencing material as well (unless it is under a GFDL license). Anyone who uses us a source should refer back...

Hi! We are implementing a new integration of the forums and the wiki with respect to auto-login, style, permissions etc. Otherwise, the wiki remains unchanged. The default style should now have the forums menu bar on top. If you do not see it, make sure that on this page...

Believe we are not talking abt enforceable business copyright as in your case, but a policy ref the content. Even though an unenforceable policy has no direct material benefit, it provides a framework for content sharing.

I believe the question of whather we have a copyright is settled (Yes, we do). The other issue is that Burdak ji and Ravi ji raise. What should our policy be ref the copyright ? My view is that exact copies of material should reference the source. Ideally speaking material that is "based on"...

my understanding is that the site already has an automatic copyright against "duplication" of content, but the idea to have a formal policy makes sense. In the past, we've not had anyone ask us specifically (except in one instance, when they wanted to duplicate content and we advised them...

Technically, we can provide the service on the existing jatland server, but the real issue is the admin overhead it will cause (A LOT!). It is not funny the number of forgotten email emails the admin account gets despite there being a link displayed quite prominently. I can just imagine the pain...

This thread has become too big (over 1200 posts), and is causing some server load everytime its accessed. Thread continued on http://www.jatland.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17979

Dayanand ji has explained the issue adequately. We miss him even more as a moderator coz of his patience in answering sometimes trivial posts as in this thread. There is no "fixed" set of reasons for which a warning is given, but the moderators try and do their best to be consistent. Policies...

Suggest, upload these pictures in the wiki instead of here... That way, the pics will be on the village page and their info.