[Foundation-l] Wikisource: Trademark infrigment?

[Tom Morris]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 09:34, Yann Forget <yannfo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Trademark infrigment?
> http://fr.wikisource.7val.com/wiki/
>

Potentially, although the wisdom of shutting it down may be minimal:
it looks like a mirror/scraper service someone has made that turns
French Wikisource into a mobile readable version. It's up to the
Foundation whether they pursue trademark issues with this site, but it
raises an interesting point...

Why is there no mobile version of the sister projects? Wikinews and
Wikisource seem like obvious candidates to have a mobile version like
Wikipedia has, given that there are existing smartphone applications
that show a need in those areas.

Wikinews: there's a bunch of newsreading apps for smartphones already
- look at, say, the BBC's iPhone and iPad apps for news.

Wikisource: people seem to like reading books on phones too (Kindle
app, iBooks, Google have some kind of books thing in the pipeline
apparently).

Wikibooks and Wikiquote too. Not so sure whether there is such a
pressing need for Wikiversity on mobile, so whatever.

Anyone at the Foundation: any chance of mobile versions for the sister projects?

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Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>