[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikicite project pages (english versions only so far)

Thu Feb 10 21:09:17 UTC 2005

On Feb 10, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

> Stirling Newberry <stirling.newberry at xigenics.net> writes:
>
>> Which works only in a world without copyright and with everyone having
>> a 7 second attention span.
>
> Do you think you are allowed to store a collection of "citations" of
> copyright protected works?
>
> -- 

The information content of a work is not merely the lexical content, 
this is why lexical search engines have given way to google which 
includes who cites who. Wikicite will provide a means for generating 
scholarly apparatus to determine the linkages between works, their 
content and the communities annotation on those works. Human knowledge 
isn't an undifferentiated bucket of bits.