[WikiEN-l] An obscene example of remote loading

[William Pietri]

Thanks all for the helpful answers.

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> William Pietri wrote:
>   
>> Say, are there examples of people who do this well, contributing back to 
>> Wikipedia or to the general public? [...]
>>     
>
> Answers.com is an excellent example.  They license Wikipedia content and 
> also license content from many other more traditional sources, and offer 
> it up to people who search on their site.  They have always been a 
> strong supporter of Wikimedia and have been traditionally the #1 sponsor 
> of the annual Wikimania conference.
>
> So they benefit from our work, and they give back to the community as well.
>   

Interesting. Are there examples of organizations who give back in other 
ways?

I ask with some ulterior motive. I and some pals are looking at doing a 
commercial startup that would involve a substantial amount of open 
content. That content would be narrower but deeper than Wikipedia, by 
which I mean it would cover a much smaller set of topics, but would 
include a fair bit of material that Wikipedia currently deletes for lack 
of notability.

As a startup, major cash donations are unlikely, at least for a few 
years. But where our material overlaps with Wikipedia, we wanted to find 
ways to collaborate. I think the only item currently in our product plan 
is a tool to compare related articles, so that editors of either site 
can easily diff and merge parts they like from the other. Ideally, we'd 
open-source that code so that it could be used to compare and sync 
between other open-content sites as well.

Do folks here have other ideas that would be mutually beneficial?


Thanks,

William