ODP spinoff, GFDL. Why have I never heard of this? Is it alive or a ghost site?
- d.
On 14/12/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
ODP spinoff, GFDL. Why have I never heard of this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Encyclopedia_Project
Is it alive or a ghost site?
I'm not sure it has ever been flying.
On Dec 15, 2007 3:35 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
ODP spinoff, GFDL. Why have I never heard of this? Is it alive or a ghost site?
It has been around for at least 5 years and doesn't look very healthy in Alexa: http://decenturl.com/alexa/open-site-alexa-traffic-rank
I don't know when it started being GFDL. I thought it was under the MPL in 2004, but maybe that was only the software. They used to say you had to include this box if you wanted to use the content: http://web.archive.org/web/20041220174020/open-site.org/docs/osnote.html
You still can't add Wikipedia content since you to have to assign copyright to Open Site Foundation. http://open-site.org/help/Using_Our_Data
It's listed for deletion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Site
Angela
Quoting Angela beesley@gmail.com:
On Dec 15, 2007 3:35 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
ODP spinoff, GFDL. Why have I never heard of this? Is it alive or a ghost site?
It has been around for at least 5 years and doesn't look very healthy in Alexa: http://decenturl.com/alexa/open-site-alexa-traffic-rank
I don't know when it started being GFDL. I thought it was under the MPL in 2004, but maybe that was only the software. They used to say you had to include this box if you wanted to use the content: http://web.archive.org/web/20041220174020/open-site.org/docs/osnote.html
You still can't add Wikipedia content since you to have to assign copyright to Open Site Foundation. http://open-site.org/help/Using_Our_Data
It's listed for deletion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Site
Angela
I'd love to remove the prod for deletion, but I can't in good conscious. The only source I can find that talks about it at all is http://www.globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=1590&cid=1&sid=112 which only mentions it in passing saying "The Open Site Encyclopedia is a hybrid, a cross between the Wikipedia and the SEP models. Still, they haven't been able to attain the stature of the likes of the Encyclopedia Britannica or even the Encarta."
The talk page of the Open Site article is very interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Open_Site
The inclusion standards really have become much stricter. I doubt Rebecca (Ambi) would say what she said there now. (See the exchange in the last part of the talk page).