[Foundation-l] Re: Copyright of Vatican stuff

Wed Jan 25 17:37:02 UTC 2006

Robert Scott Horning wrote:
> Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
> 
>> 2006/1/25, Chris Jenkinson 
>> <chris at starglade.org>:
>>  
>>
>>> Robert Scott Horning wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>
>> -- 
>> Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
>> http://www.ceti.pl/kganicz/poli/kontakt.html
>>  
>>
> This doesn't have to be an "official" contact.  Simply write the letter 
> as a group of interested Wikimedia users who are interested in adding 
> original content that comes from official Vatican sources.  That just 
> keeps the legal hassles of writing a formal letter representing the 
> foundation and lets the Vatican know that this is a volunteer project as 
> well.

If I remember well, Sabine, from itwiki, has been in contact with the 
Vatican some time ago. Might be interesting to involve her. I put her in 
copy of this mail.

Ant