Why would anybody want to buy it if it is possible to download it for
free?
download is impractical, it takes too long. Often you want it offline, when no internet-connection is available.
Or you want to have a fixed version, not overwritten by updates.
Or you want to have it in case it stops and goes offline and is maybe no longer available one day.
The German version is being sold in Germany, but not the larger English version.
It s possible to buy a usb key with okawix http://www.okawix.com
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Why would anybody want to buy it if it is possible to download it for
free?
download is impractical, it takes too long. Often you want it offline, when no internet-connection is available.
Or you want to have a fixed version, not overwritten by updates.
Or you want to have it in case it stops and goes offline and is maybe no longer available one day.
The German version is being sold in Germany, but not the larger English version.
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There's also the "wikireader": http://thewikireader.com/index.html I've played with one of these and I must say, they're pretty awesome.
wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Pascal Martin pmartin@linterweb.fr wrote:
It s possible to buy a usb key with okawix http://www.okawix.com
----- Original Message ----- From: sterten@aol.com To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:27 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] sell wikipedia
Why would anybody want to buy it if it is possible to download it for
free?
download is impractical, it takes too long. Often you want it offline, when no internet-connection is available.
Or you want to have a fixed version, not overwritten by updates.
Or you want to have it in case it stops and goes offline and is maybe no longer available one day.
The German version is being sold in Germany, but not the larger English version.
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
There's also the "wikireader": http://thewikireader.com/index.html I've played with one of these and I must say, they're pretty awesome.
wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Pascal Martin pmartin@linterweb.fr wrote:
It s possible to buy a usb key with okawix http://www.okawix.com
----- Original Message ----- From: sterten@aol.com To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:27 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] sell wikipedia
Why would anybody want to buy it if it is possible to download it for
free?
download is impractical, it takes too long. Often you want it offline, when no internet-connection is available.
Or you want to have a fixed version, not overwritten by updates.
Or you want to have it in case it stops and goes offline and is maybe no longer available one day.
The German version is being sold in Germany, but not the larger English version.
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I can second the WikiReader! But yes: we do not charge for access to our content. Both the sites and the database dumps are usable without any charges, and have been since inception. If people want to do things with that content--download, analyze, sell, create a business model around it--they're all certainly allowed to do that, as long as they follow the license and give credit where credit is due :) The WMF's role is to facilitate generation and dissemination of content, not hiding it behind a paywall. I'm glad that products like the wikireader and other offline media like DVDs exist. It means that people find our work valuable, and that means a lot to me.
-Chad
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 14:01, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
I can second the WikiReader! But yes: we do not charge for access to our content. Both the sites and the database dumps are usable without any charges, and have been since inception. If people want to do things with that content--download, analyze, sell, create a business model around it--they're all certainly allowed to do that, as long as they follow the license and give credit where credit is due :)
Apart from that dumps are often outdated, images aren't available, et cetera
Or were there changes about that recently?
g
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Peter Gervai grinapo@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 14:01, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
I can second the WikiReader! But yes: we do not charge for access to our content. Both the sites and the database dumps are usable without any charges, and have been since inception. If people want to do things with that content--download, analyze, sell, create a business model around it--they're all certainly allowed to do that, as long as they follow the license and give credit where credit is due :)
Apart from that dumps are often outdated, images aren't available, et cetera
Or were there changes about that recently?
g
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Last I heard, all the dumps were coming in at fairly regular intervals, barring the enwiki full-history-all-namespaces dump. Image dumps are needed, yes. The OP said he just needs the text anyway :)
-Chad
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
Last I heard, all the dumps were coming in at fairly regular intervals, barring the enwiki full-history-all-namespaces dump. Image dumps are needed, yes. The OP said he just needs the text anyway :)
-Chad
Image dumps aren't really needed since you can hook into the foreign file repos (aka InstantCommons) for most things (except for offline uses), And it's a bit hard to dump images on most projects due to fairuse (or the languages equivalent laws) images, commons would be the most easiest projects that you could dump almost all the images from.
-Peachey
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