Logos offered their Verba Volant content as GFDL work for reuse in
Wikimedia projects (probably wikiquote, not wikipedia) and was
thinking of including a paragraph of biography about the quotee from
the relevant wikipedia article when it exists.
I would guess this is where the confusion lies. I just saw a copy of
the August 22 V.Volant email, which mentioned cooperation w/wikipedia
and included a wp logo, and sent a clarifying response to Logos and
the board.
Thanks to Gerard for his initial writeup. I'm away from email for 2
days (hopefully less) but will write more when I'm back in Boston.
SJ
On 8/20/05, Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The Verba Volant mailing list
<http://www.verba-volant.net/> sent a
mail to their subscribers today stating the service (which seems to be
sending out multilingual quotations) was "offered thanks to the
cooperation between Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/> and Logos
Group <http://www.logos.it/>."
To avoid any further confusion over this, there have been discussions
between Jimmy Wales, Logos, and other interested parties (namely,
Gerard and Sj), but any discussions have simply resulted, so far, in
some proposed ideas about how Logos might work with Wiktionary, not
Wikipedia as the mail suggested. Gerard has just put together a page
about this proposal at
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logos.Wiktionary>. For background
information, please see
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wiktionary>.
Discussion about any aspects of this proposal are still very welcome
on those meta pages, or on the Wiktionary mailing list, and the fact
that discussions regarding the proposed project are taking place with
external parties should not be seen as a reflection of any decision
already having been made. Comments by the existing Wiktionary
community, and anyone else interested, would be very valuable as we
move towards various decisions about the project.
Angela
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