[Wikipedia-l] A Korean Wikipedia

tarquin tarquin at planetunreal.com
Mon Sep 16 11:41:32 UTC 2002


Is there an existing Korean wikipedia?
If not, should we perhaps invite them to move their project to Wikipedia?

Stephen Gilbert wrote:

>It looks like this project actually is doing something
>with the software and the content, as opposed to
>taking a database dump and slapping ads on it.
>
>I'd like to ask godisgreen.com to remove all the
>"Wikipedia" references in the code, which makes it
>look as if it is an official Korean Wikipedia. Also,
>they should mention somewhere that the material is
>covered by the GFDL and is originally from our
>project. Comments?
>
>Since I'm in South Korea, I have lots of friends who
>can help me with this. ;-)
>
>Stephen Gilbert
>
>--- koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com wrote:
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>>Fred Wrote:
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>>>Found this yesterday:
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>>http://www.godisgreen.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Encyclopedia
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>>>If you do not have Korean fonts it will not display
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>>properly.
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>>and if you go to edit, you get the following
>>warning: "Please notice that all contributions to
>>Wikipedia are considered to be released under the
>>GNU Free Documentation License. If you don't want
>>your writing to be edited mercilessly and
>>redistributed at will, then don't hit submit. You
>>are also promising us that you wrote this yourself,
>>or copied it from a public domain resource. DO NOT
>>USE COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!"
>>
>>Interesting site.  I hope they get more
>>contributors, though--I'm seeing only three in the
>>last three days.  Also they're using Phase II
>>software.
>>
>>kq
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