Re: [WikiEN-l] Free Software Magazine and Wikipedia

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(a)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(a)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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WikiEN-l mailing list >>> WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org >>> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >>> >>> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > ---- > Tony Mobily > Author of "Hardening Apache" (Apress) > "...this book can save you..." -- Mitchell Pirtle, PHP Magazine > 05/2004 > > >