[Foundation-l] Wolf Mountain MediaWiki Appliances Released

Wed Jul 26 23:22:07 UTC 2006

Domas Mituzas wrote:

>Um. You could share your technology, for common good, sure!
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What does this mean exactly?  Whose good?    Commerce is not evil,
Wikipedia was born from it .... and is supported by it.

>I did not :(
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That's clear....

>I just opened Five Pillars article, and I know that I may fail at  
>'code of conduct' sometimes, sorry, but, Wikipedia has neutral point  
>of view.
>No 'please donate' buttons will make filtered forks (a.k.a. mirrors)  
>worth mentioning as "helping Wikipedia".
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Wikipedia usage as a credible resource is the standard for measurement 
of its success.  If folks don't think its credible,
or view it as a novelty, then it has failed.   Personal soapboxs aside.

>Filtered resource/mirror does not give full power to edit the free  
>content.
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I can think of nothing more powerful than every person on the planet one 
day owning
their own personal wikipedia mirror.  Now that's freedom to edit. 

>Sure, $$$ attracts business people, and we have few business people  
>here, but we have the pride of not taking that with strings attached.
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Food costs money, rent costs money, computers cost money, hosting costs 
money,
internet connectivity costs money -- the strings are that Danny and 
Jimbo have to pay
everyones bills to keep it going.  How about those who wish to funnel 
$$$ into their efforts
by creating some viable revenue generating initiatives around it.

>We have pride to make free information resource ;-)
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I have pride in creating translations to bring it to every native tribe 
in the US and Hawaii.  And I
can back up what I promise with action and solid delivery  -- not hot 
air :-).

>It would be an easy task to make a list of countries worth visiting  
>to provide wikifilter (I'm quite amused to find wikifilter.org is  
>still free ;-) - there're lots of things people should not know  
>(because it is all very very depressing (c) Colbert ;-)
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< But I hope foundation has more noble causes to exist. >

You have missed the point and I don't think understand my intentions.

Jeff

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>Cheers,
>Domas
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