[Toolserver-l] How much wiki-data is too much?

[John Doe]

As long as its just parsing a datadump and posting a compressed archive of
those results Im not sure I see a problem.



On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 15 May 2010 18:30, River Tarnell <river.tarnell at wikimedia.de> wrote:
> > My initial thought would be that this is not allowed.  The exception for
> > small extracts is intended for diffs and similar.  Actual definitions are
> > basically the same as article text.
> >
> > However, WM-DE will need to provide a final opinion on this.
>
> Ok.
>
> Will I get a reply from them on this list, or should I forward my
> query elsewhere?
> In the event that I can't publish these files here, is there another
> Wikimedia-related place I could?
>
> Conrad
>
> > River.  (Sorry for top-posting.)
> >
> > ----- Reply message -----
> > From: "Conrad Irwin" <conrad.irwin at gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, May 15, 2010 3:39 pm
> > Subject: [Toolserver-l] How much wiki-data is too much?
> > To: <toolserver-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> >
> > I recently re-read the toolserver rools, and am concerned that
> > publishing definitions extracted from XML dumps of en.Wiktionary may
> > be in violation of rule 10.
> >
> > # Tools may not serve significant portions of wiki page text to
> > clients. "Significant" means distributing actual page content; for
> > example, installing MediaWiki to serve the text of wikis would not be
> > allowed, but showing a short extract to provide context for a tool
> > would be okay.
> >
> > Could someone please clarify whether this precludes publishing lots of
> > short extracts combined? I had intended to (eventually) publish
> > similar dumps of other information in Wiktionary (such as the
> > Translations), so it would be nice to check that this is permitted on
> > the toolserver, or whether I have to find some alternative hosting.
> >
> > The current output is at http://toolserver.org/~enwikt/definitions/<http://toolserver.org/%7Eenwikt/definitions/>
> >
> > Thanks
> > Conrad
> >
>
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