Re: [Bug-gne]Re: [reference] Re: Metadata

[Joakim Ziegler]

On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 02:26, Tom Chance wrote:

> Incedentally, I was thinking of founding a network which would work to 
> bring together all the various projects out there dedicated to "freeing 
> information", including everything2, nupedia, gutenberg, etc. It would 
> link the sites together under a common banner (and agenda), and promote 
> the network by any means possible. I'm not too sure how I'd achieve 
> this, what the aims would be, how "official" and financially involved it 
> would become, but it's an idea floating around in my head. I'm always 
> thinking of how I come across great projects, and what a shame it is 
> that it takes me so long to reach them, by such luck. The network could 
> be called the "Free Information Network (FIN)" which lends well to logos ;-)

Everything2 isn't free, is it? Someone asked me "How is Wikipedia better
than Everything2" a while back, when I told them I contributed to
Wikipedia, and I had to check it out to answer. I could not find a
license anywhere, nor a link to download the information in a usable
format. Indeed, some text on the site led me to believe that the text
people contribute is not assumed to be licensed for free use at all,
only implicitly licensed to be shown on that site.

By the way, Wikipedia might be a decent place to put things like what's
being discussed here. It already has nodes with large lists of things,
like countries, deities, famous programmers, etc., etc. Also, of course,
the threshold for contributing is zero-height.

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