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