On Mar 28, 2005 11:19 PM, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
I complained very strongly to them about it before they launched their site publicly, and so I really don't know what else to say about it. It is not my style to speak ill of people, so I think I'll just say nothing at all.
Wikipedia has been removed from the partners page as a result of this complaint.
I contacted the founders of Ourmedia about this, who basically felt that the link suggested a potential collaboration, much in the same way that the page at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Collaboration_with_Ourmedia does. It also reflected the fact that Ourmedia uses Wikipedia as a resource on pages such as http://ourmedia.org/help/publish-audio and has had the imput of many Wikipedians into its policies.
JD said "Partnership, to us, means that we are pursuing the same goals. If you look at our Partners page, it makes no claim about any formal relationship between Ourmedia and Wikipedia. This is simply a list of sites that we're working with" and Marc said the partnership shows that we both "support the notion of shared repositories".
The issue is also being discussed on our forums at http://ourmedia.org/node/1552
Angela.