Talk:About the Wiki Project

Great idea guys, will use as a valuable tool to educate new employees to this industry. Thanks for your continued support and forward thinking, as I'm sure will be just as successful as your internet site has become.

--Jack Thomson 08:43, 27 September 2008 (PDT)

Thank you very much for the support.

We invite you to add any information you have so this site can continue to grow.

--Ameliora 09:05, 27 September 2008 (PDT)

Great Idea

congratulations

Emile

--Emile Janssens 03:42, 28 September 2008 (PDT)

Who owns the content that is created on this Wiki? There is no mention of license that I can find. I have no problem contributing, as long as I know that it is published under an appropriate (creative commons?) license, that can be shared in the future.

--John 16:28, 29 September 2008 (PDT)

John, all content posted on RitchieWiki should be of referential quality. Therefore any material that you add from other sources must be referenced. However, any personal knowledge that is unreferenced is all released into the public domain. We, at RitchieWiki, appreciate any contributions you could provide.

Thank you very much. - The RitchieWiki Team

Hi TheRitieWiki Team

The lack of an statement on copyright is comspicuse by its absence, I have searched the site on several occasions and find no mention of it. The statement above that it is released into the public domain is the first one i have seen on this important issue. Can you clearly point users and potential editors to the apropriate page were the satus is clearly stated as some editors will be reluctant to 'donate' their work in some cases without a clear statement. There is also the Issue of Re using content on 3rd party web sites that this address. Many people could re use your photo libary on 3rd party sites if it is permited by a clear license statement. But many others will just borrow them without giving credit to the sourec or creator. Many people wish to share there photos but would like atribution for there work.  as a US site you (RitchieWiki) are probably missing out on contributions from European contributors such as my self. I have a collection of thousands of items of UK machinery, but am reluctant to contribute to a site with an unclear statemt about content copyright. Most wiki sites have a clear licensing statement attached to pages. You have a page RitchieWiki:Copyrights that is displayed as a red link when editing this page with a note about not adding copyrighted info that is part of the standard Wiki based web site template, so if the site is PD or creative comons licensed please create a page to avoid any future ambigity as the statement refers editors to that page for more info.

-- Dave 79.74.43.185 16:58, 29 January 2010 (UTC) (I have contributed in the past but canot remember my log in now)