Hello,
Sorry for not commenting sooner (I am a bit late in mail answering...).
The person further detailed his question by
Hello,
I was just looking around the internet and accidently stumbled across this mailing list thread that regarded a question I asked awhile back about the Wikipedia Featured Article RSS Feed, and realised I hadn't really made myself clear in what I was trying to ask you permission for.
I understand that the RSS Feed itself is unofficial and not apart of Wikipedia, and we are intending on contacting the owner of this feed after asking you guys about it. What we are asking you is, are we legally allowed under the licenses that the Wikipedia is published to include this RSS Feed of the "Today's Featured Article" section on the homepage of www.wikipedia.org in a piece of software we are currently developing for schools.
I hope this clears this up and will be happy to make it clearer if I'm still sounding confusing or at not understandable... it is after all getting close to midnight where I am and well, things don't seem as straight at this hour ;)
Anyhow, the permission would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
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Is that clearer ? What does he mean Mark ?
Anthere
Mark Jeays wrote:
I think he may be referring to my unofficial (screen-scraped) RSS feed of "Today's Featured Article" hosted on my web site at http://jeays.net/wikipedia/featured.xml ?
I don't even know if I can officially give or deny permission?! In any case, everyone is free to use the feed.
HTH,
Mark Jeays
-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Wikimedia Foundation Sent: April 5, 2006 5:39 PM To: wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ticket#2006040510003988] Using the Wikipedia"Featured Article"
Hi
Does anyone have the knowledge and understanding to answer this email ?
Ant
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From: james.johnstone@ayion.com To: board@wikimedia.org Subject: Using the Wikipedia "Featured Article" Date: 2006-04-05 08:23:40
Hello,
I'm writing to follow up on something I asked about a little while ago that has come up for us again. I wrote to you around two months ago asking about whether or
not we could
use an RSS feed of the Wikipedia "Todays Featured Article" block to include it in a piece of educational software we are currently in the process of developing, but we never got as far as to request whether or not we could do this.
So the question we are trying to get answered is, can we include the RSS feed of the "Today's Featured Article" section in this educational software package that we are developing? The include would be displayed on the students "Start page",
the page they
see when they first open up the service to gain access to other information.
This permission would be greatly appreciated,
Regards,
James Johnstone head of development ayion educational
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