Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1417834-20140208041633/@comment-1417834-20140219234613

Semanticdrifter wrote: Our position is that since all content is released under the CC-BY-SA, when one wikia reuses content from another both the source and the new version are under the same license, which fulfills the SA prong.

The new version indicates the license it is under in the exact same fashion as the source page.

Including a link to the source page allows anyone to see the original authors via the edit history for that page. The edit history system as a whole fulfills the BY attribution requirement.

I can definitely agree that there are better, more polite ways to go about giving another user the proper credit. Import/Export is by far at the top of the list, and the one we encourage. Certainly, if the link method is used, making the link as clear and prominent as possible shows both class and wiki spirit in high measures. But from our perspective providing a link to the source page on the page copied fulfills the attribution requirement. Then point out where in the license that this is given as alternative means to the restrictions of section 4.