[Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

[Vickram Crishna]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> By hosting a WikiSource outside of the US and in the jurisdiction of
>>> the country.
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>> This is not limited to Wikisource. Wikimedia Commons is definitely in the
>> list, and may be some other projects also.
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> Unfortunately, this  leads to fragmentation in the sense there is no one
> source for the sum of human knowledge.
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Well, that was the point of the TRIPS agreement, was it not? Were
information, knowledge, truly 'free', we might be seeing some very
interesting alterations in the balance of the way things get done. The
purpose of TRIPS was to maintain the status quo.

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Vickram
Fool On The Hill <http://communicall.wordpress.com>
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