Wikipedia talk:Ownership of content

"Ownership of articles" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Ownership of articles has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 March 5 § Ownership of articles until a consensus is reached. Toadette ^{(Let's discuss together!)} 19:04, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Positive implications

This page mainly talks about the negative sides of now owning content namely that authors and subjects can't control the content etc but I think we should also talk about the positive sides namely the lack of responsibility due to now owning content. Namely for example that the author of an article doesn't generally have an ongoing duty to watch the page for vandalism, updates or a need to change the content due to a change in consensus that occurred after the article was created as long as the content was acceptable at the time the article was created, see WP:MESS. Also that subjects do not have a responsibility to maintain the article for policy violations, inaccuracies or vandalism. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:28, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

I've added this as there has been no objects in a few weeks though maybe it could be improved. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:53, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

"Routine adminstration" with Linter

Hi, I started a discussion at WP:Helpdesk#Etiquette for user home pages/sandboxen about whether user pages are somehow different from other pages, even sacrosanct? I ended up WP:OWN#User pages, which says "Usually others will not edit your primary user page, other than to address significant concerns (rarely); or to do routine housekeeping, such as handling project-related tags, disambiguating links to pages that have been moved, removing the page from categories meant for articles, replacing non-free content by linking to it, or removing obvious vandalism or BLP violations."" The concise answer from Wikipedia talk:Linter#User home pages was "Fixing Linter errors fits in with "routine housekeeping". All pages are fair game for fixing errors, replacing deleted templates, adjusting wikitext to conform to MediaWiki code changes, and other maintenance that keeps Wikipedia pages rendering correctly." Could this perhaps be clearly stated in the 'Background' section in the Project page, and elsewhere? MinorProphet (talk) 16:57, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

I know this may seem crazy.

But doesn't Wikipedia belong to good ol' Jimbo, and/or the Wikimedia Foundation? So technically they own the rights to pretty much everything used and written on here... oh wait! They own talk pages, files, users, comments, and especially topics for discussion. They even own what I am writing right now! Ṫḧïṡ ṁëṡṡäġë ḧäṡ ḅëëṅ ḅṛöüġḧẗ ẗö ÿöü ḅÿ ᗰOᗪ ᑕᖇEᗩTOᖇ 🏡 🗨 📝 01:03, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Mod creator, Jimmy Wales is one of the founders but he does not own Wikipedia. As for the Wikimedia Foundation, it was founded 2-1/2 years after Wikipedia. It owns the trademarks and the servers but does not own the content. Cullen328 (talk) 01:18, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

^{[just kidding]}

that is why I said it may seem crazy. ^[Humor] Ṫḧïṡ ṁëṡṡäġë ḧäṡ ḅëëṅ ḅṛöüġḧẗ ẗö ÿöü ḅÿ ᗰOᗪ ᑕᖇEᗩTOᖇ 🏡 🗨 📝 01:29, 4 August 2024 (UTC)