Logos offered their Verba Volant content as GFDL work for reuse in Wikimedia projects (probably wikiquote, not wikipedia) and was thinking of including a paragraph of biography about the quotee from the relevant wikipedia article when it exists.
I would guess this is where the confusion lies. I just saw a copy of the August 22 V.Volant email, which mentioned cooperation w/wikipedia and included a wp logo, and sent a clarifying response to Logos and the board.
Thanks to Gerard for his initial writeup. I'm away from email for 2 days (hopefully less) but will write more when I'm back in Boston.
SJ
On 8/20/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
The Verba Volant mailing list http://www.verba-volant.net/ sent a mail to their subscribers today stating the service (which seems to be sending out multilingual quotations) was "offered thanks to the cooperation between Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/ and Logos Group http://www.logos.it/."
To avoid any further confusion over this, there have been discussions between Jimmy Wales, Logos, and other interested parties (namely, Gerard and Sj), but any discussions have simply resulted, so far, in some proposed ideas about how Logos might work with Wiktionary, not Wikipedia as the mail suggested. Gerard has just put together a page about this proposal at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logos.Wiktionary. For background information, please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wiktionary.
Discussion about any aspects of this proposal are still very welcome on those meta pages, or on the Wiktionary mailing list, and the fact that discussions regarding the proposed project are taking place with external parties should not be seen as a reflection of any decision already having been made. Comments by the existing Wiktionary community, and anyone else interested, would be very valuable as we move towards various decisions about the project.
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