Hi,
I just discovered that babylon.com made a free glossary of 322 terms from the english Wikipedia relating to the Olympic Games:
http://info.babylon.com/cgi-bin/temp.cgi?id=47768&layout=gt_new.html
Unfourtunaltely you have to download their software, that will expire after a period of time, two read the glossary. I wonder If the glossary contains 5 authors or a link to the version history and if they modified anything. If they modified parts of the articles, they have to publish a transparent copy that is readable without they proprietary software. Can anybody check this? There is no publically available list of which articles they collected. At least this should be done.
I like projects using Wikipedia content if Wikipedia can benefit from they additions and modifications.
Babylon has a wide range of free glossaries contributed by Babylon's community of users: http://www.babylon.com/gloss/glossaries.html But you cannot use them If you do not buy their software. It's a shame.
The firm is located in Israel and Germany. There is a court decision that confirmed the GPL in Germany so we should also be able two refer to the GFDL.
Thanks, Jakob
P.S: There is a German press release about it: http://www.pressebox.de/index.php?boxid=23510&sid=searchengine_sid
Jakob Voss wrote:
Unfourtunaltely you have to download their software, that will expire after a period of time, two read the glossary. I wonder If the glossary contains 5 authors or a link to the version history and if they modified anything. If they modified parts of the articles, they have to publish a transparent copy that is readable without they proprietary software. Can anybody check this? There is no publically available list of which articles they collected. At least this should be done.
In the articles of the glossary there is only written down, that they base on informations of the wikipedia article "Olympic_Games", together with the URL to the article page in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_games). There is NO list of authors or anything similar, but they refer to the GNU FDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html). That's all.
Marc (Barbarossa)