On Aug 29, 2008, at 12:23 AM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
Well as a free-content encyclopedia, are we really proponents of special-linking only free projects? After all most encyclopedias reference copyrighted m aterial, and I would think we'd really want more to reference the highest quality material, not just if it's also free content.
So for example we could have a special template link for the Encyclopedia Brittanica for those articles we have, which they also have. As a "blogger" if you will, we, that is the entire project, could enjoy the same special relationship with EB that bloggers do, that is, to deep-link and display content if a user is coming from our project to theirs. (They recently added this ability, normally you have to subscribe.)
To me, that sort of high-quality-link would be beneficial, and helpful to have it specially noted, in the same way that say Wikisource or Wikiquote is, and yet the material is copyright.
Well, and there's a fundamental difference between reference links, external links, and interface links. We link all three in different ways. The question, for me, is whether Wikia sites are more like Wikiquote or EB from our perspective.
-Phil