[Wikipedia-l] News about PDF generation

[Magnus Manske]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> When your way of printing information, information that looks utterly
> different because of this wish / urge to include all kinds of other
> information that cannot be seen on the screen, you create a white elephant.
>
> Be assured that I will not hesitate to advise anyone not to use this tool
> when the page as seen on screen is not faithfully reproduced when printed.
> Be assured that this is not what you want. When the urge to be "politically
> correct" creates output in this way, you will effectively kill off open
> content and make it impossible to sell people the idea of Open Content.
>
> Please THINK.
> Thanks,
>      GerardM

Now, now. No need to get enraged here.

I'm not sure what your point here is, Gerard. Someone wrote an online
tool that can create PDFs from Wikipedia articles. It attaches the
GFDL, as this is the current Wikipedia license requirement.

What exactly is wrong with that? How does that "kill off open content"?

If you would like to see it support other licenses and other sites,
you're free to ask for that. You know, nicely. Neither threatening nor
patronizing. I'm sure you will they'll be happy to extend the scope of
the tool once it has been shown to work nicely with Wikipedia in
practice.

Have some WikiLove :-)
Magnus