[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Foundation-l] Partnership with Mandrakesoft

[Brion Vibber]

On Sep 22, 2004, at 6:40 PM, Bryan Derksen wrote:
> My impression was that this isn't going to be a "reviewed" 1.0-style 
> Wikipedia, but rather a plain old snapshot that's had all the images 
> lacking the correct licencing tags automatically stripped out, and 
> possibly the articles with {{stub}} in them stripped out as well 
> (personally I think stubs should be left in, but IMO it's probably not 
> a major issue either way). The downside of this approach is that it's 
> bound to catch a few articles in a "bad" state, but the upside is that 
> it will actually be possible to do it in the timeframe needed.

Certainly we could give them a stripped dump in that timeframe, but I 
think they'd be wasting a lot of money pressing it to disc in that 
state. I can't support this as described.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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