[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia-l digest, Vol 1 #1249 - 14 msgs

Mon Jul 28 16:08:20 UTC 2003

Daniel Mayer wrote:

> Ulrich Fuchs wrote:
> >With an "official" cannibalization of Wikipedia arcticles for 
> >Nupedia articles there would be no content - people do not 
> >like it to write without being acknowledged. 
> 
> What are you talking about? By law the Nupedia article would have to give
> full credit to Wikipedia and have a link back. Our content is already
> being used in many, many other places as well - this is not cannibalism.
> That is the whole point of the GNU FDL - re-usability of the text.

I think what Ulrich is most worried about is he doesn't want a 
stable encyclopedia to be a fork. This can be easily avoid by puting 
a link to the current Wikipedia article on hte Nupedia version, 
labeled "Edit the latest version of this article".

Stephen G.
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