Hey, Is there a feature on the wikis that allows you to have auto-updated stock information, much like the weather maps on wikinews?
James
On 10/31/05, James R. Johnson modean52@comcast.net wrote:
Hey, Is there a feature on the wikis that allows you to have auto-updated stock information, much like the weather maps on wikinews?
I've originally developed a tool to do this on English Wikinews. The output was auto-edited by a bot, with images hosted on the Commons, with the results located at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Market_Data
I stopped running the bot for three reasons:
1) This type of work should really be server-side and not performed by a bot editing pages and uploading images every few hours 2) The data source wasn't very stable and consistent 3) The license for the data was questioned
Please note that the biggest issue is the source of the data -- as far as I know, there's no free service that provides international stock market data unencumbered by restrictions on data reuse. If someone with more time could find a good source for the data, I could doubtlessly start running that bot again. Or if someone wants to write this tool server-side (as an extension to MediaWiki or whatnot) we'd be in an even better shape.
-ilya haykinson
On 01/11/05, Gerrit Holl gerrit@nl.linux.org wrote:
Ilya Haykinson wrote:
- The license for the data was questioned
Isn't data ineligible for copyright?
Gerrit.
Collections and compilations are copyrightable, IIRC.
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Ole Andersen wrote:
On 01/11/05, Gerrit Holl gerrit@nl.linux.org wrote:
Ilya Haykinson wrote:
- The license for the data was questioned
Isn't data ineligible for copyright?
Gerrit.
Collections and compilations are copyrightable, IIRC.
Yes, but it's tricky. That depends also on the originality or obviousness of the compilation. There is only one way to have a complete collection, and there is essentially only one way to have an alphabetical order.
Ec
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