I notice that Bryce wikified two articles by Oleg Izyumenko, and that Bryce later removed them, at Oleg's request.
What's that all about? I hope he wasn't angry.
On a side note, I am really enjoying the discussion under the UnitedStatesHistory thread. I'll post some remarks there later. :-)
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I notice that Bryce wikified two articles by Oleg Izyumenko, and that Bryce later removed them, at Oleg's request.
What's that all about? I hope he wasn't angry.
He (Oleg) was *extremely* angry. I feel pretty bad about it.
I've deleted his email but his points were essentially that he had submitted the article to GNUPedia ONLY and demanded it be removed immediately. I asked if he hadn't intended his article to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License, and mentioned that GnuPedia had been renamed GNE.
He replied rather vehemently that I had *ruined* his article, that yes he did intend for it to be licensed to GNUPedia, but "GNU" did not mean "Free", and that I was clearly lying about GnuPedia changing to GNE since it still said GnuPedia on the gnu.org website.
Yeah, I know what you're thinking, but I didn't see a point to arguing (I usually don't) so just got rid of it. Twern't my wish to exacerbate the already tenuous relationship between these projects, and my apologies if it causes longer term issues.
He also publically castigated someone who voluntarily created a translation of the page today, because they hadn't asked first.
On a side note, I am really enjoying the discussion under the UnitedStatesHistory thread. I'll post some remarks there later. :-)
Erk, not me. :-\
Bryce
Geez, well, I was afraid of that. You didn't do any harm, and I agree totally with the decision to remove it. I certainly don't want there to be any fights between the two groups, at least not if we can avoid it!
Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I notice that Bryce wikified two articles by Oleg Izyumenko, and that Bryce later removed them, at Oleg's request.
What's that all about? I hope he wasn't angry.
He (Oleg) was *extremely* angry. I feel pretty bad about it.
I've deleted his email but his points were essentially that he had submitted the article to GNUPedia ONLY and demanded it be removed immediately. I asked if he hadn't intended his article to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License, and mentioned that GnuPedia had been renamed GNE.
He replied rather vehemently that I had *ruined* his article, that yes he did intend for it to be licensed to GNUPedia, but "GNU" did not mean "Free", and that I was clearly lying about GnuPedia changing to GNE since it still said GnuPedia on the gnu.org website.
Yeah, I know what you're thinking, but I didn't see a point to arguing (I usually don't) so just got rid of it. Twern't my wish to exacerbate the already tenuous relationship between these projects, and my apologies if it causes longer term issues.
He also publically castigated someone who voluntarily created a translation of the page today, because they hadn't asked first.
On a side note, I am really enjoying the discussion under the UnitedStatesHistory thread. I'll post some remarks there later. :-)
Erk, not me. :-\
Bryce
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Other articles have been appearing on info-gnupedia, some of which are being specifically released under the GNU FDL, which I believe makes them candidates for inclusion in wikipedia. I've unsubscribed from that list and am not going to attempt to copy any further articles over, but someone else might want to consider doing this.
Bryce
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Geez, well, I was afraid of that. You didn't do any harm, and I agree totally with the decision to remove it. I certainly don't want there to be any fights between the two groups, at least not if we can avoid it!
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