[Foundation-l] Wikipedia content in SMS

Sun Jul 1 20:29:35 UTC 2007

Google has this here in the US, you just send a text to GOOGL (46645)
with the keyword define and it will retrun the definition in lots of
cases it will be en.wp.
For example sending: "Define:asterisk pbx" returns from google:
"Glossary: Asterisk PBX: Asterisk is an open source software
implementation of a telephone private branch exchange (PBX). Like any
PBX it allows a number of attached telephones to m... Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk_PBX"
The above is broken up in 2 messages.
Hope this helps you.

On 7/1/07, Ivan Lanin <ivanlanin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> An Indonesian telco company contacted some of us, Indonesian Wikipedia
> sysops, a couple of weeks ago. They are interested in providing their
> users with Indonesian Wikipedia contents by SMS. I would like to ask
> some question:
>
> # Since Wikipedia content is GFDL, how can they comply to the license?
> # The name "Wikipedia" itself is a trademark. Can they put the name on
> their advertising? How?
>
> Have anything similiar to this situation happened? Please share or
> give us direction on how we should handle this, since we think the
> idea is good to make Wikipedia more known to Indonesian.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Ivan Lanin [[meta:User:IvanLanin]]
> ''I hope someday you'll write with us, and the world will edit as one.''
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