On 30/12/06, thomasasta(a)gmx.net <thomasasta(a)gmx.net> wrote: Preliminary: All respects to Limewire and the hard work that's been put into the development of the software. Also, I'm not making judgement on what the technologies behind Limewire enable end-users to do (FWIW, I am certainly *not* siding with the RIAA!). Someone on these mailing lists a couple of days ago wrote that Wikimedia was the only Web 2.0 venture that really took copyright seriously. Being the leading project in the free-content movement, taking copyright seriously is necessary to furthering our cause and our goals. I do not think it would help us to collaborate with projects which are seen by some (perhaps many) to be legally shady when it comes to copyright. Whether or not we agree with the notion that technology which enables copyright violation should be accountable for any copyright violation that occurs using the technology, we need to respect the law and need to appear above-the-board.

Wikiasari will be a service of Wikia, not Wikimedia. On 12/30/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hoi, > If there is one thing that is relevant, then it is that Peer to Peer > technology can be used for more than just copying material from one > computer to another. The faulty argument used by the proprietary content > industry is that because of sharing in a peer to peer network you must > be a criminal. This is utter rubbish. Consequently this is exactly one > of the projects were Open Source and Open Content projects need to work > together because it will show that a complete technology is unjustly > stigmatised. > > When this technology is used in a way that is in line with the way the > WMF treats copyright, we will be able to create an infrastructure where > both organisations and communities will work together. I do applaud it > when it can be a true cooperation, a cooperation where everybody > collaborates for their own reasons and create something that everybody > will be happy with. > > Thanks, > GerardM > > Oldak Quill schreef: > >> On 30/12/06, thomasasta(a)gmx.net <thomasasta(a)gmx.net> wrote: >> >> >>> Hello Jim, hello Sam, >>> >>> you search for coders to get wiki-search out. >>> There are already a lot of coders in the list >>> http://search.wikia.com/wiki/search:Developers >>> >>> What do you think about a collaboration with limewire ? >>> >>> http://www.limewire.org/forum/showthread.php?p=3090&posted=1#post3090 >>> >>> Integrate yacy in limewire and built up a colaboration with yacy, >>> > limewire and messenger cspace (ported to java) for wikia and wikimedia > foundation. > >>> Both are java. >>> Kind regards tom. >>> >>> >> Preliminary: All respects to Limewire and the hard work that's been >> put into the development of the software. Also, I'm not making >> judgement on what the technologies behind Limewire enable end-users to >> do (FWIW, I am certainly *not* siding with the RIAA!). >> >> Someone on these mailing lists a couple of days ago wrote that >> Wikimedia was the only Web 2.0 venture that really took copyright >> seriously. Being the leading project in the free-content movement, >> taking copyright seriously is necessary to furthering our cause and >> our goals. I do not think it would help us to collaborate with >> projects which are seen by some (perhaps many) to be legally shady >> when it comes to copyright. Whether or not we agree with the notion >> that technology which enables copyright violation should be >> accountable for any copyright violation that occurs using the >> technology, we need to respect the law and need to appear >> above-the-board.

Anyway, then let´s concentrate on the search-l of wikia, though I think it is wrong to have the foundation not in the boat. Then the new search engine has nothing to do with wikipedia and then the media hype is not understandable. Is Jimmy then a freerider of the wikipedia lable ?

it may be that in the future the Foudnation supports such a project. I have no problem with you discussing this here, but please do realise that until 48 hours ago, none of us had ever heard of this project. We just discovered it through the press and are unrelated to it. Best regards Ant