On Dec 16, 2007 6:02 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Dec 16, 2007 3:10 PM, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
But so far that seems to be getting started fairly slowly, especially as regards other nonprofit organizations doing something interesting with our content. Why this is I'm not entirely sure. Is it that nobody has good ideas? Or they find the format we provide our dumps in too intimidating? Or they want more filtered/stable content? Or they lack money? Etc.
Some of these are en.wikipedia specific, but...
The license sucks. There hasn't been a valid full history dump in months. Live feeds are hard to get and are probably too expensive. It's too likely there are copyright violations, libel, and other illegal content in Wikipedia, and redistributors would have a harder time asserting DMCA and/or Section 230 protection (if they can at all). Live mirroring is forbidden.
Those are my main reasons.
Oh yeah, I forgot another big one. The content contains some really vulgar stuff, which isn't tagged in any way.
None of these alone are really showstoppers. In fact, fixing any single one of them would probably go a long way.