[Foundation-l] Is popularity a good thing for us?

[Anthony]

On Dec 16, 2007 3:10 PM, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> But so far that seems to be getting started fairly slowly, especially as
> regards other nonprofit organizations doing something interesting with
> our content. Why this is I'm not entirely sure. Is it that nobody has
> good ideas? Or they find the format we provide our dumps in too
> intimidating? Or they want more filtered/stable content? Or they lack
> money? Etc.
>
Some of these are en.wikipedia specific, but...

The license sucks.  There hasn't been a valid full history dump in
months.  Live feeds are hard to get and are probably too expensive.
It's too likely there are copyright violations, libel, and other
illegal content in Wikipedia, and redistributors would have a harder
time asserting DMCA and/or Section 230 protection (if they can at
all).  Live mirroring is forbidden.

Those are my main reasons.