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)