It would be ironic of course, that a "contract" could be made by an individual representing wikipedia-- while each wikipedian must make a contract with wiki upon each edit. But the agreement with EUObserver thus is not at all a deal with wikipedia-- rather a Wikipedian (Erik) convincing them to allow their leads to be free under FDL -- Any agreement is just an understanding that we tend to follow the terms of the same liscence-- not a promise --not an obligation. WTBD? (whats the big...)
~S~
Delirium delirium@rufus.d2g.com wrote: While initially I thought this agreement was a good idea, and still see these sorts of things as in our interest, in this particular case it seems mostly useless. The summaries on their front page seem to be typically two to three sentences long, so it'd be trivial in the absence of this agreement to simply use their full articles as a source and write an article incorporating the information therein ourselves. We already incorporate factual information from other news sources (BBC News, CNN, Reuters, AP, etc.) in this manner.
-Mark
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