[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation's partnership with Kaltuna and l...

Fri Jan 18 04:34:35 UTC 2008

In a message dated 1/17/2008 11:07:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
tstarling at wikimedia.org writes:

Maybe  not so slippery. It's been a long time since the Answers.com deal 
(i.e.  the agreement by the Foundation to promote the Answers.com one-click 
tool  on Wikipedia), and we haven't seen many similar deals since then. 
Maybe  the consistent community backlash at each of these announcements is  
keeping us away from edge of said slope.

-- Tim  Starling

The name Kaltura is fascinating, and the etymology is very telling: Russian  
through Hebrew. See 
_http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/haltura/_ (http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/haltura/)  (the  kh 
sound is alternately transliterated as h kh, or k)

especially:

Citations: _1923_ 
(http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/haltura_2/)   Nikita Balieff New York Times Magazine (June 24) “Off Stage and Us Again”
  p. 9: “Haltura” is a word which has been used frequently by the Russian 
actor  during Bolshevism and signifies an extra job on the outside of his own 
theatre.  The “haltura” apparitions are staged without any artistic aims, and 
interest the  actor only as a means by which he can earn an extra few million  
rubles. 

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