[WikiEN-l] Commercial glossary using Wikipedia articles

Thu Aug 5 18:29:20 UTC 2004

Hi,

I just discovered that babylon.com made a free glossary of 322 terms 
from the english Wikipedia relating to the Olympic Games:

http://info.babylon.com/cgi-bin/temp.cgi?id=47768&layout=gt_new.html

Unfourtunaltely you have to download their software, that will expire 
after a period of time, two read the glossary. I wonder If the glossary 
contains 5 authors or a link to the version history and if they modified 
anything. If they modified parts of the articles, they have to publish a 
transparent copy that is readable without they proprietary software. Can 
anybody check this? There is no publically available list of which 
articles they collected. At least this should be done.

I like projects using Wikipedia content if Wikipedia can benefit from 
they additions and modifications.

Babylon has a wide range of free glossaries contributed by Babylon's 
community of users: http://www.babylon.com/gloss/glossaries.html
But you cannot use them If you do not buy their software. It's a shame.

The firm is located in Israel and Germany. There is a court decision 
that confirmed the GPL in Germany so we should also be able two refer to 
the GFDL.

Thanks,
   Jakob

P.S: There is a German press release about it:
http://www.pressebox.de/index.php?boxid=23510&sid=searchengine_sid