[Foundation-l] sell wikipedia

Chad innocentkiller at gmail.com
Thu Jan 21 13:59:31 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Peter Gervai <grinapo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 14:01, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 :)
>
> Apart from that dumps are often outdated, images aren't available, et cetera
>
> Or were there changes about that recently?
>
> g
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Last I heard, all the dumps were coming in at fairly regular intervals, barring
the enwiki full-history-all-namespaces dump. Image dumps are needed, yes.
The OP said he just needs the text anyway :)

-Chad



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