Hi,
From the Welcome page:
Welcome to Wikisource. This site is a repository of source texts in any language which are either in the public domain, or are released under the GNU Free Documentation License. The site is part of the Wikimedia foundation and is a sister project of Wikipedia, which is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate, free content encyclopedia.
It only talks about GNU FDL, not Verbatim.
Is the page not up-to-date?
Merc.
On 29/03/2005, at 2:01 PM, Andrew Lih wrote:
You might want to take a look at Wikisource, which is a repository for verbatim content.
-Andrew
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:54:38 +0800, Tony Mobily IMAP merc@mobily.com wrote:
Hello,
My name is Tony Mobily. I am the Editor In Chief of Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com).
Our magazine has articles about free software and free culture in general. All our articles are released under a free license (Cretive Common, GFDL or Verbatim Only) 6 weeks after the magazine is out. I KNOW that a Verbatim Only license is hardly free, but it's our current option for "opinionated" articles about a specific subject.
Some of my authors told me that some of the articles would be perfect as follow-up articles to wikipedia entries. The beauty of this is that the follow-up articles themselves would be editable, and would therefore stay "alive".
For example he article "Format Wars" (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_01/ focus_format_history/) would fit very neatly in Wikipedia's "File_format" entry.
The requirement of course would be that these article are released under the GFDL. That will depend on the authors, but I have talked to some of them already and they said that they would be happy with that.
The problem is: do you have a spot in Wikipedia (or in "Wikimedia" in general) for general articles such as the ones we publish? If the answer is "no", would it be worthwhile creating such a spot?
Thanks a lot,
Merc.
Tony Mobily Editor-In-Chief Free Software Magazine http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com
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