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[sanger1 at nupedia.com]

Bryce, no doubt, I would be miffed if I were you. I share your 
confusion, too.  I had no idea that it was such a small operation 
(remember, I'm not a programmer, so you must explain things simply 
and clearly to me, if you want me to understand).  I assure you that 
there is absolutely no *resistance* to the request--unless inertia 
counts as resistance...

Nupedia isn't making any money either.  In fact, Wikipedia is much 
closer to
the point where it might (somehow) make money for Bomis (and 
therefore,
potentially, for anyone else who wants to use the content for profit).

Anyway, remember, Wikipedia, like Nupedia, is a volunteer project--so 
it's
not surprising (though regrettable) that essential features like this 
should
be rooted-for and planned by volunteers.  Really, we should have done 
this
long ago.

On the other hand, long ago, we didn't really know that the project 
would be so successful so quickly, that this would be so important 
and useful so soon!

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryce Harrington" <bryce at neptune.net>
To: <wikipedia-l at nupedia.com>
Cc: <jasonr at bomis.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia teamwork


> 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.  ;-)
>
>
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