[WikiEN-l] Print edition

Fri Feb 27 15:41:20 UTC 2004

--On Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:45 PM -0800 Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> wrote:

> Delirium wrote:
>> Well, part of that would hinge on what exactly we're going to be doing
>> for them.  Are we going to give them wikitext and they're going to
>> properly format it and work out the GFDL issues and whatnot?  Or are we
>> expected to provide them material in whatever their preferred format is,
>> and with all the details worked out?
>
> I'd say that's open ended at this point.  Everything is.  We should
> brainstorm about it.

Agreed.  And we should clean up some stuff, for example "list of obscure things" articles before we gather content for any such project.

> Of course any publisher can come in and take the wikitext and make
> their own "Joe's Publishing Company Encyclopedia", without consulting
> us.
>
> But what makes more sense for us, and for a publisher I think, is for
> us to use this to "prove" our quality by going to print, under the
> Wikipedia name.  And for that we probably want to do as much of the
> work as we can.
>
> --Jimbo

Do you/somebody still hold trademark on "Wikipedia?"

Nathan