[Foundation-l] H2G2 "to be disposed of"

Mon Jan 24 18:30:18 UTC 2011

On 24 January 2011 18:02, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 January 2011 16:09, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12265173
>>
>> Anything worth salvaging?
>>
>
> Probably but I can't see it falling within our remit. Apart from
> anything else it's not under a free license.

If the BBC owns the copyright, or has permission to re-license the
work, then that isn't an issue. I can't remember the copyright system
for h2g2 (I was very active there before I became active on Wikipedia,
but that was years ago).

I don't think their content would be appropriate for us without a
major re-write, though. It tends to be (or at least, tended to be
while I was there) written in a very light-hearted, sometimes even
comedic, tone. It's not encyclopaedic. It isn't well-referenced either
(and certainly isn't a reliable source).

h2g2 was a fun community, but it wasn't really a useful project.