|From: Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)ctelco.net>
|Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 20:34:37 -0600
|
|At 07:19 PM 8/10/02 -0700, Stephen G. wrote:
|>So, I was browsing in dmoz's open content encyclopedia
|>section
|>(http://dmoz.org/Computers/Open_Source/Open_Content/Encyclopedias/),
|>and what did I see? The Fact Factory:
|>http://the-fact-factory.com/
|>
|>Someone has copied a fist-full of Wikipedia content
|>and started his own "collaborative project to create a
|>complete encyclopedia from scratch". This one is
|>loaded with ads. It's been very poorly done; many of
|>the edit links are broken and things like the
|>Wikipedia FAQ have been left unchanged.
|>
<snip>
|
|Well for one thing the copy was made a few months ago and you can't edit
|the pages, despite a link to do so. All the ads remind me of
Netscape.com.
|Looks like it's going to fall of it's own weight.
|
|Fred Bauder
|
|
I looked up Louis Armstrong, which I wrote much of in wikipedia, and
found no article, but ads for ten different Louis Armstrong books, and
ads for a bunch of other books. It seems to be an attempt to get
people to go to Amazon. Makes me think twice about the proposal to
make the wikipedia's ISBN links go to a bookstore, even though it is
really not the same.
Tom Parmenter
Ortolan88