On Aug 29, 2008, at 12:23 AM, WJhonson(a)aol.com wrote:
Well as a free-content encyclopedia, are we really
proponents of
special-linking only free projects? After all most encyclopedias
reference copyrighted m
aterial, and I would think we'd really want more to reference the
highest
quality material, not just if it's also free content.
So for example we could have a special template link for the
Encyclopedia
Brittanica for those articles we have, which they also have. As a
"blogger" if
you will, we, that is the entire project, could enjoy the same
special
relationship with EB that bloggers do, that is, to deep-link and
display content
if a user is coming from our project to theirs. (They recently
added this
ability, normally you have to subscribe.)
To me, that sort of high-quality-link would be beneficial, and
helpful to
have it specially noted, in the same way that say Wikisource or
Wikiquote is,
and yet the material is copyright.
Well, and there's a fundamental difference between reference links,
external links, and interface links. We link all three in different
ways. The question, for me, is whether Wikia sites are more like
Wikiquote or EB from our perspective.
-Phil