Michael Snow wrote:
http://www.podcastingnews.com/archives/2005/03/ourmedia_offers.html
A story on the Podcasting News website describes Wikipedia as one of the "partners in the effort" to launch the Ourmedia project. Is this true? I realize that Angela is one of their advisors, but I hadn't heard that there was any kind of official partnership. Is there some kind of ongoing discussion that the community doesn't know about, or are people just being sloppy about the nature of the connection?
Well, I've never heard of them, but the ourmedia.org site has a little Wikipedia logo and link under 'Sponsors and partners' on every page of their site.
http://ourmedia.org/mission/partners says: "Wikipedia is the people's encyclopedia. The free content encyclopedia — where anyone can write or edit an entry — produced more than 1 million articles in less than four years. Wikipedia is already larger than any other English-language encyclopedia, including the Encyclopædia Britannica. What's most remarkable is that every word is written by volunteers and no one gets paid for a submission. Wikipedia and Ourmedia members are committed to creating sharing and sharing works of personal media."
It sounds more like 'some similarities in mission' than a 'partnership', and linking to Wikipedia instead of Wikimedia seems kind of odd if it really is official and nobody's bothered to tell us.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)