[Foundation-l] Copyright of Vatican stuff

Wed Jan 25 14:39:13 UTC 2006

2006/1/25, Chris Jenkinson <chris at starglade.org>:
> Robert Scott Horning wrote:
> > As far as sending a letter to the Vatican, I think it would be a very
> > good idea, but try to really do a good job of explaining the goals of
> > Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, and point out how we are trying
> > to make faithful reproductions of these documents and to try and keep
> > them in context as well.  In addition, point out that by having this
> > documentation available on Wikisource that we are making this content
> > available to people in not just wealthy countries, but some of the
> > poorer countries of the world including to people who don't necessarily
> > even have internet access and through multiple languages.  There are
> > many other points I'm sure you could come up with to really hit the
> > point home, and I would recommend that you get some Roman Catholics,
> > preferably some Catholic clergy who are also active Wikimedians (there
> > must be a few somewhere) to help draft the letter.  The purpose here is
> > to try to use language styles that fits within the heirarchical culture
> > of the Church rather than catch phrases common to Wikimedians.
>
> Essjay (on English-language Wikipedia) isn't clergy, but he is a
> professor of theology with a speciality in Catholicism. He's probably a
> great person to get in touch with:
>   --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Essjay
>

OK. I will contact him - but I guess if it make sence to send a letter
to the Vatican it should be done officialy by Foundation?

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Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
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