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Jimmy Wales : Wikipedia compatible with Creative Commons

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Uploaded by on Dec 1, 2007

Jimmy Wales at San Francisco iSummit party announced :
the Wikimedia Foundation board voted to approve a deal beetween the FSF and CC and Wikimedia. We're going to change the GFDL in such a way that Wikipedia will be able to become licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

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  • The GFDL is the main problem of Wikipedia!

  • How can you say that a non-profit project that gives free-of-charge information to the entire world, that goes to 3rd world countries and distributes PCs with offline copies of the entire Wikipedia to poor children and keeps away from publicity, sucks???

    What have you done today for the World? You suck!

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  • FUK WIKIPEDOIA WITH JEWBO N HIS SLAVES SHOULD B SHOT4STUPIDITY,IGNORANCE!DAMN STRAIGHT ZIONISTS R JUST LIKE NAZIS. FUHRA DIDNT FINISH JOB.SO MANY OF EM ON WIKIPEDOIA MOLESTIN KIDS!Pay drug users2kil copedos wikipedos they r useles shit mo of em gone world s beter place! Fuk fake wikipedia aka wikipedoia bookmark wiki-watch com all true!FACTS!

  • I dont see why Wiki cant earn money from advertisers to keep going. I know its ethic is non-profit making, but even if they allow advertising for just one week a year might be enough to pay for Wikis upkeep for a year.. Simplistic perhaps, but advertising revenue need not be an ugly term; the advertisers could be vetted for their own ethics, and Jimmy Wales could have an external mechanism in place to monitor and ensure that he and Wikis staff are themselves not personally profitting.

  • if the wikimedia staff had some integrity and a brain they would put some protection against IP address editing. Plus this is what i gather from the new change:

    GFDL - Attribution must physically accompany all copies

    CC - Attribution may by conveyed via any "reasonable means"

    you can imagine what that means: no respect for contributors whatsoever.

  • Why dont you read up on Wikipedia and its history and problems from an OUTSIDE non-Wiki source.

    Hitler banned smoking, didnt drink, and loved animals. Does that make him a nice guy too? Nope.

  • Apparently I do have a point, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered you so, now would I?

    Cheers.

  • Great, so you have no real point.

  • Notice the scare quotes, genius.

  • Wikipedia sucks. Calton (go to his user page) is the biggest piece of crap on wikipedia.

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