[WikiEN-l] Free Software Magazine and Wikipedia

Tue Mar 29 09:36:39 UTC 2005

Hi,

OK. However, in the page I read:

"The Wikimedia Commons is a project that provides a central repository  
for free images, music, sound & video clips and, possibly, texts and  
spoken texts, used in pages of any Wikimedia project"

It seems like a spot for Music and visual arts, more than computer  
articles...
Please remember that we don't mind changing the license of the articles  
if we need to!

Is Wikipedia Commons really the best spot for non-encyclopedia articles?

Bye!

Merc.

On 29/03/2005, at 5:27 PM, Andrew Lih wrote:

> Tony, you're right, it seems wikicommons is probably a better fit,
> since it supports more than just GFDL, and has Creative Commons
> licenses.
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
>
> -Andrew
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:45:29 +0800, Tony Mobily IMAP <merc at mobily.com>  
> wrote:
>> 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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>> "...this book can save you..." -- Mitchell Pirtle, PHP Magazine  
>> 05/2004
>>
>>
>>

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