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"Successor project": incorrect term

A successor project is one that completely takes over from the first project. More than once here, there's mention of Creative Commons "successor projects", which is impossible because Creative Commons is still operating. I'm sure those projects belong in the article, but there needs to be a better descriptive word for them. TooManyFingers (talk) 21:22, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 6 March 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 07:31, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]


Free contentOpen content – I think ‘Open content’ is a more general name for this and free content (like free software) is a more philosophical concept. See: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html Avoinlähde (talk) 23:21, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per Google Ngrams, pageviews (1,800 for free, 130 for open yesterday) and Google search (15 billion hits for free content, but 10 billion for open content). Oh, and this time the pageviews have a lower margin of error; Google shows different Knowledge Engine links for free and open content searches. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 03:21, 14 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per EpicPupper, also Wikidata will show that the vast majority of other language wikis appear to use words that translate to "free" and I have not found a mention of "open" yet. Our title policies tend to lean more toward actual usage than interpretation of definitions. ASUKITE 00:39, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Definition of free cultural works

The lead confidently asserts that free content are things that meet freedomdefined.org's definition of a free cultural work, with a primary source citation that just links to that definition. It may be how we define it, but is it really the one agreed-upon definition? I don't think it is.Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 14:12, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

For being permanently linked on the main page, this article in general is... not very good. I have no idea where to start improving it though. Frankly, I wonder whether it's even notable. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 14:27, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, Snowmanonahoe, that the article is not very good. It is outdated in so many ways. I cleaned up some minor formatting and grammar errors today, but that isn't the real problem. So very many things have changed since 2010-2015 which is when the article had more relevance.--FeralOink (talk) 18:55, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I reduced some of the emphasis on the Free Cultural Knowledge definition, and managed to rework the Open Content section into just a general History section. The problem is that is still way out of date, and at least 40% of the article is just cited to Richard Stallman and the Open Content Project, and so on. The article needs more secondary sources rather than just so many projects. Mrfoogles (talk) 23:23, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A better short definition in the lead is still needed. Currently we still have the Free Cultural Knowledge project's definition, even if it's not attributed as the objectively correct one, because I don't have a citation for any other ones. Probably there's a paper somewhere. Mrfoogles (talk) 23:25, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The lead needs proper sourcing

While the WP:LEAD may be written without sources if the content is uncontroversial enough and the summary of the body of the article is uncontroversial, in this case there are clearly problems. The phrase unrestricted by copyright and other legal limitations on use excludes CC BY-SA material, in which case CC BY-SA material is not "free content" (per this phrase), because CC BY-SA material is copyrighted. Anyone or any organisation who copies generic Wikipedia material without respecting the licence is violating the copyright of the Wikipedians who authored that content (including this talk page section, for example). CC BY-SA forbids the possibility of copying without attribution and forbids the possibility of copying without giving the same freedom to others.

As per the above section, first we need WP:RS for the history and usage of the term, and the various definitions, and then the lead can be corrected (e.g. with repeat references). Boud (talk) 11:40, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed at least that part of the lead, while we wait for proper sourcing. Overall, the lead is probably not too bad, apart from the sourcing problem. Boud (talk) 11:49, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]