[Foundation-l] Logos and Wiktionary

Sat Aug 20 03:06:03 UTC 2005

Logos offered their Verba Volant content as GFDL work for reuse in
Wikimedia projects (probably wikiquote, not wikipedia) and was
thinking of including a paragraph of biography about the quotee from
the relevant wikipedia article when it exists.

I would guess this is where the confusion lies.  I just saw a copy of
the August 22 V.Volant email, which mentioned cooperation w/wikipedia
and included a wp logo, and sent a clarifying response to Logos and
the board.

Thanks to Gerard for his initial writeup.  I'm away from email for 2
days (hopefully less) but will write more when I'm back in Boston.

SJ

On 8/20/05, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Verba Volant mailing list <http://www.verba-volant.net/> sent a
> mail to their subscribers today stating the service (which seems to be
> sending out multilingual quotations) was "offered thanks to the
> cooperation between Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/> and Logos
> Group <http://www.logos.it/>."
> 
> To avoid any further confusion over this, there have been discussions
> between Jimmy Wales, Logos, and other interested parties (namely,
> Gerard and Sj), but any discussions have simply resulted, so far, in
> some proposed ideas about how Logos might work with Wiktionary, not
> Wikipedia as the mail suggested. Gerard has just put together a page
> about this proposal at
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logos.Wiktionary>. For background
> information, please see
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wiktionary>.
> 
> Discussion about any aspects of this proposal are still very welcome
> on those meta pages, or on the Wiktionary mailing list, and the fact
> that discussions regarding the proposed project are taking place with
> external parties should not be seen as a reflection of any decision
> already having been made. Comments by the existing Wiktionary
> community, and anyone else interested, would be very valuable as we
> move towards various decisions about the project.
> 
> Angela
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