[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation's partnership with Kaltuna and l...

[Ian A Holton]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 23:34 -0500, daniwo59 at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/17/2008 11:07:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
> tstarling at wikimedia.org writes:
> 
> Maybe  not so slippery. It's been a long time since the Answers.com deal 
> (i.e.  the agreement by the Foundation to promote the Answers.com one-click 
> tool  on Wikipedia), and we haven't seen many similar deals since then. 
> Maybe  the consistent community backlash at each of these announcements is  
> keeping us away from edge of said slope.
> 
> -- Tim  Starling
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The name Kaltura is fascinating, and the etymology is very telling: Russian  
> through Hebrew. See 
> _http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/haltura/_ (http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/haltura/)  (the  kh 
> sound is alternately transliterated as h kh, or k)
>  
> especially:
>  
> Citations: _1923_ 
> (http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/haltura_2/)   Nikita Balieff New York Times Magazine (June 24) “Off Stage and Us Again”
>   p. 9: “Haltura” is a word which has been used frequently by the Russian 
> actor  during Bolshevism and signifies an extra job on the outside of his own 
> theatre.  The “haltura” apparitions are staged without any artistic aims, and 
> 
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> 

Wow, that's interesting. Thanks for that!

Ian [[User:Poeloq]]
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