[Foundation-l] Wolf Mountain MediaWiki Appliances Released

Thu Jul 27 08:29:42 UTC 2006

Jeff is making his own business with these? I thought he was just trying to
help Wikipedia with his assistance.

Either way, I am pleased with his efforts.

On 7/27/06, Ilya Haykinson <haykinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> Jeff is actually trying to build a business based on reusing Wikipedia
> content, and yet a good half of these posts attack him for making use of
> the
> content.  Nowhere in our charter does it say that we're building an
> immutable work.  Let people who want to tweak it, rename it, change my
> username to a foul word, rename all mentions of Jimmy Wales to "Evil
> Dictator" or whatever do so.  The source material is Wikipedia.  The end
> users can't call theirs Wikipedia, since that's the WMF's
> trademark.  Beyond
> that, we should be encouraging all uses --
>
> On 7/26/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/26/06, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> > > Yes of course, but then the article history shows that someone
> > > else had edited the text after I was there, and the diff (included
> > > in the distribution or available by link to the Wikipedia website)
> > > shows exactly what my contribution was.  Does your filter program
> > > show its own modifications in the article history?
> >
> > The GFDL doesn't require that a distributor make every previous
> > version available.
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