Note that I am not aware of any partnership with OurMedia myself, nor was ever informed we could be or were.
The only thing I know... is that other associations started listing themselves as being partners with wikipedia. I raised the topic on the french mailing list about what could be a partner and how to decide who was a partner and who was not.
The discussion was inconclusive and in spite of me saying to the association representative we were actually not partners, they still sort of more or less claim it.
After thought, I decided that 1) I could not do much if someone claimed himself partner of Wikipedia 2) As long as it was written nowhere on our project that we were (no special page, no logo, no statement), well... we were not.
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Anthere
Angela a écrit:
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:25:45 -0800, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
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'm not entirely sure what it means for Wikipedia to be listed as a "partner", but my assumption was that it was a reflection of potential collaboration or shared goals between the projects, rather than anything more formal. I did speak to Jimbo about this a few weeks ago when I first saw this on the Ourmedia site, since I wasn't sure if this should be seen as a problem. He said he didn't care for it, but when I suggested I could have it removed, he just said he had complained a bit (I don't know who to), and also said that it was not a ridiculous statement. He's met with Marc Canter (one of the founders of Ourmedia) since then, but I don't know if they discussed this point.
As far as I know, the "partnership" means no more than the people involved in the projects they list as partners (including the Creative Commons) are also involved with Ourmedia, which is possibly why they list Wikipedia rather than the Wikimedia Foundation (though that could just be an error). Certainly, no formal partnership has been discussed. The only link between the two projects comes from the fact that I, and other Wikipedians, have been involved with creating some of the project's initial policies etc, and that ideas for potential collaboration have been discussed on the Wikimedia Commons since last August (when the page was still at Meta). See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Collaboration_with_Ourmedia
Angela.
-- Angela Beesley Ourmedia.org