On 5/5/06, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
I am still having difficulty figuring out where exactly Wikibooks is supposed to mesh with Wikipedia in the grand Wikimedia scheme...to read some of the discussions there, it would seem that they don't think any kind of "meshing" suitable at all, which seems ridiculous to me...
And similarly, Wikitravel. There is such a lot of duplication of effort on city articles. IMHO, a wikitravel article on a city should basically be a great big {{wikipedia:en:Paris}} followed by "the best bars are..." and "don't forget to buy a metro ticket". There's plenty of information in Wikitravel that ought to be present in Wikipedia as well, and a vast amount of the opposite situation.
Steve
On 5/5/06, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
I am still having difficulty figuring out where exactly Wikibooks is supposed to mesh with Wikipedia in the grand Wikimedia scheme...to read some of the discussions there, it would seem that they don't think any kind of "meshing" suitable at all, which seems ridiculous to me...
Whilst in an ideal world we would be meshing left, right and centre, there are lots of all too human reasons why we've never done so. I hope single sign-on is not a pipe dream as it might alleviate some of them.
And similarly, Wikitravel. There is such a lot of duplication of effort on city articles. IMHO, a wikitravel article on a city should basically be a great big {{wikipedia:en:Paris}} followed by "the best bars are..." and "don't forget to buy a metro ticket". There's plenty of information in Wikitravel that ought to be present in Wikipedia as well, and a vast amount of the opposite situation.
Yep if you could just spend a couple of minutes unifying the licences for us Guy that would be great ;-).
Seriously has anything more been said about GFDL >1.2? Hopefully Erik's freedomdefined project announced recently on this list will have positive effects in this regard.
On 5/5/06, Pete Bartlett pcb21@yahoo.com wrote:
Yep if you could just spend a couple of minutes unifying the licences for us Guy that would be great ;-).
Wikitravel and Wikipedia have incompatible licenses?
Steve
Wikitravel and Wikipedia have incompatible licenses?
I am no expert but I believe the GFDL with clauses as used by Wikipedia and the CC-sharealike-attribution licence used by Wikitravel are only "morally compatible" i.e. they have basically the same intent (viral, free reuse, including making derivatives, is allowed, even commercially, if original is attributed). But they are not legally compatibles for various reasons (I believe).
Thus there has been talk of future versions of each licence being written in such a way to move towards compatibility.
On 5/5/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/5/06, Pete Bartlett pcb21@yahoo.com wrote:
Yep if you could just spend a couple of minutes unifying the licences for us Guy that would be great ;-).
Wikitravel and Wikipedia have incompatible licenses?
GFDL is incompatible with just about every other free license out there.
-- Mark [[User:Carnildo]]