[Foundation-l] sell wikipedia

[Chad]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's also the "wikireader": http://thewikireader.com/index.html
> I've played with one of these and I must say, they're pretty awesome.
>
> wittylama.com/blog
> Peace, love & metadata
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Pascal Martin <pmartin at linterweb.fr> wrote:
>
>> It s possible to buy a usb key with okawix
>> http://www.okawix.com
>>
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>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] sell wikipedia
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>> >
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>> >> Why would anybody want to buy it if it is possible to download  it for
>> > free?
>> >
>> > download is impractical, it takes too long.
>> > Often you want it offline, when no internet-connection is available.
>> >
>> > Or you want to have a fixed version, not overwritten by updates.
>> >
>> > Or you want to have it in case it stops and goes offline and is maybe no
>> > longer available
>> > one day.
>> >
>> >
>> > The German version is being sold in Germany, but not the larger  English
>> > version.
>> >
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I can second the WikiReader! But yes: we do not charge for access to
our content. Both the sites and the database dumps are usable without
any charges, and have been since inception. If people want to do things
with that content--download, analyze, sell, create a business model
around it--they're all certainly allowed to do that, as long as they follow
the license and give credit where credit is due :) The WMF's role is to
facilitate generation and dissemination of content, not hiding it behind a
paywall. I'm glad that products like the wikireader and other offline media
like DVDs exist. It means that people find our work valuable, and that
means a lot to me.

-Chad