[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia teamwork

[Bryce Harrington]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 sanger1 at nupedia.com wrote:
> ... but, well--our programmers are very busy 
> with projects that actually make money.  :-/

(And the rest of us programmers are not?)

Wikipedia gains nupedia a good deal of attention.  You also have said
that there may be articles which can go into nupedia.  I further imagine
you will find other ways to profit off wikipedia more directly; I know
you have expended thought in this area.

The reason many people got involved (at the very least, *me*) was the
willingness to hold the content under the GFDL.  As I see it, what folks
are asking is simply to deliver on the promises made at the outset, and
frankly it's rather frightening to encounter any resistance to requests
like these.  (Like a car manufacturer refusing to do warranty work
because their employees are busy making new sales.)

This is NOT going to take anyone more than maybe an hour to do.  It
isn't really even programming, per se; any unix sysadmin should be
comfortable crontabbing tarballs of a website.  And it IS tied up with
being able to continue making money; call it a marketing or legal
requirement if nothing else.

Anyway, I'm a little miffed - you said your programmers were too busy,
and that you'd appreciate it if someone would supply code to do it.  I
responded with some code that would do the minimum needed to comply
(just change the paths).  I was anticipating a thank you, but instead
"It does no good to post it here"?  Well, call me confused.  ;-)