On 4/12/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
I'm more concerned that it's promising "accurate" information.
Okay, I have downloadeed and installed this software on Win2K as a non-Administrator. The installation routine also tried to install a toolbar in the MSIE by default, but failed due to the lack of rights.
The tool itself has a permanent link to the foundation donation page. 100% (minus paypal fee) of this money gets to Wikimedia. The tool appears to be based on some ActiveX-Object thingy that uses MSIE to render the pages. I could be mistaken. If an article is too long, it is shortened. There are hyperlinks to wikipedia.answers.com and to the license text of the GFDL on wikipedia.org. Direct hyperlinks to the wikipedia article itself is missing. Defining on how you interpret this large piece of impractical text called GFDL, Anwwers.com might be violating the GFDL (ie for not proving a list of authors). Whatever, IANAL. Background colors are sometimes irritating, I am not sure how to configure it.
Has anyone yet taken a tcpdump of this software?
So far, it could be a helpful tool for some people. I am not sure if I want to keep it, due to the lack of applicability to my needs.
I think Wikipedia should mention this software at a suitable place and should be happy if there are more people discovering the "donation" button.
Mathias