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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