On Dec 16, 2007 3:10 PM, Delirium <delirium(a)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.