Angela wrote:
On Mar 28, 2005 11:19 PM, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales
<jwales(a)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'm glad that's been resolved, at least.
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.
The Wikipedia logo was displayed prominently under a heading "Sponsors
and Partners" on *every page of the site*, and again prominently
displayed with the Wikipedia listing on their Partners page.
How's that even *vaguely* on the same level as having a single
discussion-oriented page on a community-built site that starts off with
text like "Since Ourmedia share one of the goals of the Wikimedia
Commons, it would be good if we could collaborate with them in some way.
Please use this page to brainstorm ways in which we could do this. Ideas
left here will be fed back to the ourmedia group on their wiki." ?
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".
Perhaps we should chip in and buy JD a dictionary? Sooner or later the
poor fellow's going to be at the wrong end of a trademark lawsuit.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)