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

[The Cunctator]

On 3/24/05 1:18 AM, "Angela" <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:46:53 +0100, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Related to this is that the Open Directory Project claims Wikipedia is
> their sister project. See the end of <http://dmoz.org/Reference/>, for
> example. This was mentioned at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:External_links#More_restrictive_po
> licy_on_external_linking
> but not really discussed on Wikipedia as far as I know. There is (or
> at least used to be) a "Wikipedia now a Sister site?" thread at Dmoz
> <http://forums.dmoz.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=908066> (you need to be
> an editor there to read it, and my login has expired so I can't
> guarantee that link still works).

And this torques me off, because Dmoz is a frighteningly corrupt and
autocratic community and their licensing and copyright policy is diametrical
to Wikipedia's. Maybe if they were willing to admit to being our evil
stepsister.