I wrote:
Dropping our name so as to imply a more active collaboration than downloading a database dump ... that seems slightly questionable behaviour. Unless, of course, there was an active collaboration with Babylon Ltd?
Ah, turns out there is!
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-February/006096.html
Brad Fitzgerald wrote:
They jumped the gun with the release but yes, there is a deal with
Babylon pending.
w00t :-)
- d.
On 2/15/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I wrote:
Dropping our name so as to imply a more active collaboration than downloading a database dump ... that seems slightly questionable behaviour. Unless, of course, there was an active collaboration with Babylon Ltd?
So, it sounds like they will just be redisplaying our content and/or providing links to it. But will this help attract more people to edit/write articles?
Steve
Steve Bennett wrote:
On 2/15/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I wrote:
Dropping our name so as to imply a more active collaboration than downloading a database dump ... that seems slightly questionable behaviour. Unless, of course, there was an active collaboration with Babylon Ltd?
So, it sounds like they will just be redisplaying our content and/or providing links to it. But will this help attract more people to edit/write articles?
Steve
Ultimately, we aim at being a resource :-)
ant
On 2/15/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I wrote:
Dropping our name so as to imply a more active collaboration than downloading a database dump ... that seems slightly questionable behaviour. Unless, of course, there was an active collaboration with Babylon Ltd?
Ah, turns out there is!
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-February/006096.htmlBrad Fitzgerald wrote:
They jumped the gun with the release but yes, there is a deal with
Babylon pending.
w00t :-)
- d.
Just as long as this doesn't turn into another answers.com mess (although I will admit that did result in WP:TOOL being reworked into someing userble).
-- geni
Do we get free translation services?
On 2/15/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/15/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I wrote:
Dropping our name so as to imply a more active collaboration than downloading a database dump ... that seems slightly questionable behaviour. Unless, of course, there was an active collaboration with Babylon Ltd?
Ah, turns out there is!
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-February/006096.html
Brad Fitzgerald wrote:
They jumped the gun with the release but yes, there is a deal with
Babylon pending.
w00t :-)
- d.
Just as long as this doesn't turn into another answers.com mess (although I will admit that did result in WP:TOOL being reworked into someing userble).
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