Thanks for your nice answers Jan. I have been living in Antwerpen for a while, also moved quite a bit further north. Though the climate was terrible, the people were really great.
I forgot this morning to make you all benefit of the new address of the french wiki :
For those of you who understand a little bit of french (though it might not matter really...), check out
http://www.locus-solus.org/machine/getUrl.asp?page=http://fr.wikipedia.com/
Thanks Lars ! J'en ris encore...
--- "Jan.Hidders" hidders@uia.ua.ac.be wrote:
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:58:39PM -0700, Anthere wrote:
I am not sure you really realise what you are
writing here Jan.
That could be, I am not a native English speaking person, so my remarks are sometimes a bit unpolished. I hope you understand. :-)
Consider carefully the "it wastes effort but we
can still copy articles
from them" and vice versa - thank you for it
actually, some of us that do
great copies of the en.wiki do put the link each
time. Not so much to give
you credit maybe, than to try to link our wikis
together rather than
making separate wikis... Now, if you understand
french (are you belgian
?), we would be most delighted to see you copy an
article from the fr.site
one day...
I have been living and working in Belgium for a year, but am Dutch by birth. Unfortunately I don't really speak French although I usually can manage to read a French newspaper, but since I am living in Belgium I'm slowly trying to pick up again the French I was taught for six years in school. So maybe I will, one day. :-) But I digress...
I was not really thinking about copying between the English wikipedia to wikipedias in other languages, but from wikipedias at wikipedia.com to forks in the same language. The "us" in my remark was not the English wikipedia but the whole of wikipedias at wikipedia.com. This is probably because I have no idea about the fights that have been fought over the possible forks of non-English wikipedias, so my ideas of "us" and "them" might be different from yours. I have the feeling that you have concluded that I am one of "them".
I also have the impression that you think that I would be against copying things from wikipedia. Nothing could be further from the truth. The whole reason that I find wikipedia interesting is that its contents are open and placed under a licence that keeps it open. It is very important to me that Bomis does not own the contents of wikipedia.
Also consider very carefully the "does our license
then FORCE them to put
a link on every article that they have copied from
the original site"
That's an interesting comment. Indeed I'd like to
know what the licence
says about that !
It wasn't a comment, it was a question. But I have to admit that I mainly asked it to see what Jimbo's opionion would be. Did you read the GFDL on this, especially section 4? There's more to the GFDL than just that the modified work should again be under the GFDL.
Let's be serious. I consider great that some
french speaking come and
visit from time to time. We must somehow get over
these cultural
differences.
Well, here in Belgium they seem to have several cultures within a single country. It's not always easy but in general they make it work here. I don't see why that couldn't be the case for wikipedia.
Sinc�res amiti�s
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