Huge German Donation Marks Wikipedia's Evolution 130
Raul654 writes "In December, we discussed the German Federal Archive's agreement, at the urging of Wikimedia Deutschland, to donate 100,000 pictures to Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. At the time that was the largest picture donation ever to Wikipedia, and thought to be largest in the history of the free culture movement. Now Wikimedia Deutschland has reached a similar agreement with the Saxon State and University Library, which will donate 250,000 pictures to Wikipedia under CCA-ShareAlike. On a not-unrelated note: Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue its Encarta encyclopedia."
Encarta? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:nice (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Gee... (Score:5, Funny)
The beauty of their license is, you can scrape their DB, make a new wiki-based encyclopedia, and try to compete on flexibility of rules.
Re:Encarta? (Score:5, Funny)
Did anyone know it was still around?
Well, yes... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta [wikipedia.org]
Re:"Huge German Donation" (Score:5, Funny)
Das sagt deine Freundin auch immer!!!!!
Lots of pictures from German donors, eh? (Score:4, Funny)
Are they *all* of David Hasselhoff?
Re:Encarta? (Score:1, Funny)
Probably under some kind of Microsoft Encyclopedia Media Multi Distribution SemiCommons License.
Re:Gee... (Score:5, Funny)
The peter north discussion [wikipedia.org], for example, contains dozens of people repeating the same basic arguments over and over:
Re:Actually, I consider this the big news (Score:3, Funny)
Please excuse my deplorable lack of pedantry... :-P
Re:"Huge German Donation" (Score:4, Funny)
Translation for the lazy:
"That's also what your girlfriend always says!"
"not-unrelated note"? (Score:1, Funny)
Back in my day we called those "related note".
Re:nice (Score:3, Funny)
Not until someone can quantify elitist asshole admins in a number. d:
Re:nice (Score:3, Funny)