[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] CAS and Wikipedia -- CAS agrees to help contribute

[Todd Allen]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Regardless their motivation, kudos to Martin, and thank you for
>  letting us that, Phoebe.
>
>
>
>  On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  > Or maybe they took a good hard look at how many chemists are on WP, and the PR value
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  ----- Original Message ----
>  >  From: phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>
>  >  To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>  >  Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:53:31 AM
>  >  Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] CAS and Wikipedia -- CAS agrees to help contribute
>  >
>  >  It's all the more remarkable because, as our chemistry librarian here said,
>  >
>  >  "By the way, this is VERY uncharacteristic of CAS.  They have sued
>  >  others (including non-profits) over using their CAS numbers.  Maybe
>  >  they don't have a way to sue Wikipedia...."
>  >
>  >  -- phoebe
>  >
>  >  On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
>  >  > Awesome. Nice work Professor Walker :)
>  >  >
>  >  >  On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:25 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>
>  >  >  wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >  > A press release, via a chemical information list for librarians. All
>  >  >  > kudos to the remarkable Martin Walker (user:walkerma) and the
>  >  >  > WikiProject Chemistry contributors.
>  >  >  >
>  >
>  >  _______________________________________________
>  >  foundation-l mailing list
>  >  foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>  >  Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>  >
>  >
>  > __________________________________________________
>  >  Do You Yahoo!?
>  >  Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
>  >  http://mail.yahoo.com
>  >
>  >
>  > _______________________________________________
>  >  foundation-l mailing list
>  >  foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>  >  Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>  >
>
>
>
>  --
>  KIZU Naoko
>  http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese)
>  Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD
>
>
>
>  _______________________________________________
>  foundation-l mailing list
>  foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>  Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>

Not sure how he pulled that off, but congratulations! That could be a
huge benefit, and it's certainly good of CAS to offer cooperation in
the efforts.

-- 
Freedom is the right to say that 2+2=4. From this all else follows.