[WikiEN-l] Re: Copyright and Britannica Article List

Mon Jun 27 14:09:31 UTC 2005

TO:
FASTFISSION (FASTFISSION at GMAIL.COM)

SIRS,

THANKS. INFORMATIVE ON YOUR PART. A LITTLE OFF THE TRACK. PRESUMPTIVELY EXPLANATORY INDEED. NOT FRUITFUL TO MY STATE OF KNOWLEDGE.

YOURS,
DANIEL RAY
DANIELRAY at REDIFFMAIL.COM

27/06/2005 MONDAY   

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 David Gerard wrote :
>Fastfission (fastfission at gmail.com) [050626 13:04]:
>
> > Even more alternative solution: move it off of Wikipedia altogether,
> > to the webspace of some brave soul who would be happy to post a list
> > of "articles EB has that Wikipedia does not" (they could even pretend
> > it was an anti-Wikipedia page!).
> > One could easily imagine a script which would cycle through the
> > articles once every few days and check if they are still red-linked,
> > and move the filled in ones to a different section of the page. Hell,
> > I'll *write* that script if nobody else will. Then we can forget the
> > whole question. If someone will host it.
> > (I'd host it myself if I had any webspace of my own which could support it)
>
>
>I really don't see why this can't be hosted on Wikipedia, for the reasons
>you state. The fact that it's in Wikipedia: space as well makes it clear
>this is a working document, not product. If it's decided it can't be
>hosted on Wikipedia, I have plenty of places to put it, thatn can run cron
>jobs to run scripts to update it and so forth. (Though I'd have a hard time
>pretending to be anti-Wikipedia ;-) But I do think it belongs on Wikipedia
>if at all possible.
>
>
>- d.
>
>
>
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