[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia and Free Culture at Large

[WJhonson at aol.com]

Well as a free-content encyclopedia, are we really proponents of  
special-linking only free projects?  After all most encyclopedias reference  copyrighted m
aterial, and I would think we'd really want more to reference the  highest 
quality material, not just if it's also free content.
 
So for example we could have a special template link for the Encyclopedia  
Brittanica for those articles we have, which they also have.  As a  "blogger" if 
you will, we, that is the entire project, could enjoy the same  special 
relationship with EB that bloggers do, that is, to deep-link and display  content 
if a user is coming from our project to theirs.  (They recently  added this 
ability, normally you have to subscribe.)
 
To me, that sort of high-quality-link would be beneficial, and helpful to  
have it specially noted, in the same way that say Wikisource or Wikiquote is,  
and yet the material is copyright.
 
Will Johnson



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