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
Thanks Lars ! J'en ris encore...
--- "Jan.Hidders" <hidders(a)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
-- Jan Hidders
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