On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 23:34 -0500, daniwo59@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 1/17/2008 11:07:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, tstarling@wikimedia.org writes:

Maybe not so slippery. It's been a long time since the Answers.com deal (i.e. the agreement by the Foundation to promote the Answers.com one-click tool on Wikipedia), and we haven't seen many similar deals since then. Maybe the consistent community backlash at each of these announcements is keeping us away from edge of said slope.

-- Tim Starling

The name Kaltura is fascinating, and the etymology is very telling: Russian through Hebrew. See _http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/haltura/_ (http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/haltura/) (the kh sound is alternately transliterated as h kh, or k)

especially:

Citations: _1923_ (http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/haltura_2/) Nikita Balieff New York Times Magazine (June 24) “Off Stage and Us Again” p. 9: “Haltura” is a word which has been used frequently by the Russian actor during Bolshevism and signifies an extra job on the outside of his own theatre. The “haltura” apparitions are staged without any artistic aims, and

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Wow, that's interesting. Thanks for that!

Ian [[User:Poeloq]]