[Foundation-l] Re: Do we have a partnership with Ourmedia?

[Anthere]

Note that I am not aware of any partnership with OurMedia myself, nor 
was ever informed we could be or were.

The only thing I know... is that other associations started listing 
themselves as being partners with wikipedia. I raised the topic on the 
french mailing list about what could be a partner and how to decide who 
was a partner and who was not.

The discussion was inconclusive and in spite of me saying to the 
association representative we were actually not partners, they still 
sort of more or less claim it.

After thought, I decided that
1) I could not do much if someone claimed himself partner of Wikipedia
2) As long as it was written nowhere on our project that we were (no 
special page, no logo, no statement), well... we were not.

...

Anthere

Angela a écrit:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:25:45 -0800, Michael Snow
> <wikipedia at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>>A story on the Podcasting News website describes Wikipedia as one of the
>>"partners in the effort" to launch the Ourmedia project. Is this true?
> 
> 
> I'm not entirely sure what it means for Wikipedia to be listed as a
> "partner", but my assumption was that it was a reflection of potential
> collaboration or shared goals between the projects, rather than
> anything more formal. I did speak to Jimbo about this a few weeks ago
> when I first saw this on the Ourmedia site, since I wasn't sure if
> this should be seen as a problem. He said he didn't care for it, but
> when I suggested I could have it removed, he just said he had
> complained a bit (I don't know who to), and also said that it was not
> a ridiculous statement. He's met with Marc Canter (one of the founders
> of Ourmedia) since then, but I don't know if they discussed this
> point.
> 
> As far as I know, the "partnership" means no more than the people
> involved in the projects they list as partners (including the Creative
> Commons) are also involved with Ourmedia, which is possibly why they
> list Wikipedia rather than the Wikimedia Foundation (though that could
> just be an error). Certainly, no formal partnership has been
> discussed. The only link between the two projects comes from the fact
> that I, and other Wikipedians, have been involved with creating some
> of the project's initial policies etc, and that ideas for potential
> collaboration have been discussed on the Wikimedia Commons since last
> August (when the page was still at Meta). See
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Collaboration_with_Ourmedia>
> 
> Angela.
> 
> --
> Angela Beesley
> Ourmedia.org