[WikiEN-l] Free Software Magazine and Wikipedia

Tue Mar 29 08:45:29 UTC 2005

Hi,

 From the Welcome page:

Welcome to Wikisource. This site is a repository of source texts in any  
language which are either in the public domain, or are released under  
the GNU Free Documentation License. The site is part of the Wikimedia  
foundation and is a sister project of Wikipedia, which is a  
multilingual project to create a complete and accurate, free content  
encyclopedia.

It only talks about GNU FDL, not Verbatim.

Is the page not up-to-date?

Merc.

On 29/03/2005, at 2:01 PM, Andrew Lih wrote:

> You might want to take a look at Wikisource, which is a repository for
> verbatim content.
>
> -Andrew
>
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:54:38 +0800, Tony Mobily IMAP <merc at mobily.com>  
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> My name is Tony Mobily. I am the Editor In Chief of Free Software
>> Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com).
>>
>> Our magazine has articles about free software and free culture in
>> general. All our articles are released under a free license (Cretive
>> Common, GFDL or Verbatim Only) 6 weeks after the magazine is out.
>> I KNOW that a Verbatim Only license is hardly free, but it's our
>> current option for "opinionated" articles about a specific subject.
>>
>> Some of my authors told me that some of the articles would be perfect
>> as follow-up articles to wikipedia entries. The beauty of this is that
>> the follow-up articles themselves would be editable, and would
>> therefore stay "alive".
>>
>> For example he article "Format Wars"
>> (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_01/
>> focus_format_history/) would fit very neatly in Wikipedia's
>> "File_format" entry.
>>
>> The requirement of course would be that these article are released
>> under the GFDL. That will depend on the authors, but I have talked to
>> some of them already and they said that they would be happy with that.
>>
>> The problem is: do you have a spot in Wikipedia (or in "Wikimedia" in
>> general) for general articles such as the ones we publish? If the
>> answer is "no", would it be worthwhile creating such a spot?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> Merc.
>>
>> Tony Mobily
>> Editor-In-Chief
>> Free Software Magazine http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com
>>
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