Hi Dan, thank you for pointing this out and sorry that we did not come up with this ourself.
I have added your text to the credits page and also to the project outline on the startpage. Thanks and cheers, Chris > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Dan Brickley [mailto:[email protected]] > Gesendet: Montag, 23. November 2009 12:00 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: [Dbpedia-discussion] Credits page: please acknowledge Wikipedia / > MediaWiki > > Re http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Team > > The 'credits' for dbpedia don't currently acknowledge any contribution > outside of the core DBpedia project. > > This is natural as a 'who are the dbpedia team?' page (ie. who made > this site/software), but since you link the page as 'Credits' from the > homepage, and have <h1>Credits</h1> at the top, it would be > appropriate to offer some broader acknowledgements. Even if it's > somehow obvious that DBpedia is from/for/by Wikipedia-lovers, > sometimes it is nice to state the obvious. In conversation people > casually conflate DBpedia with the *data*, and the credits for the > data include the thousands at Wikipedia who edited all those pages. > > > May I take the liberty of suggesting some text? > > """ > DBpedia is essentially a data-oriented interface to the work of the <a > href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_users";>Wikipedia > community</a>, and wouldn't exist without the massive contributions > made by editors and authors at Wikipedia, or without the developers > who built the underlying infrastructure that supports <a > href="http://www.wikipedia.org/";>Wikipedia</a>. DBpedia is intended > to show how the information spread across many Wikipedia pages can be > combined into a single integrated database. We hope this will make it > easier for the amazing amount of information in Wikipedia to be used > in new and interesting ways, and that it might inspire new mechanisms > for navigating, linking and improving the encyclopaedia itelf. DBpedia > is our way of saying "thank you!" for Wikipedia... > """ > > cheers, > > Dan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
