Quoting Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Dec 15, 2007 3:35 AM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://open-site.org/
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).