Free as in beer, of course, but still, that's the main part of what's our mission, our at least what I see as our mission: As I see it, our mission is to ensure that the _knowledge and information_ are _available_ to everyone. For that, free as in beer is the important step.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Ian A. Holton <[email protected]> wrote: > But is it free as in free beer or freedom? > > --Ian > [[User:Poeloq]] > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Finn Rindahl <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Since our (WMF) aim is to provide free knowledge, I would say that SNL >> making a free online edition is a proof of our success more than a new >> "competitor". They have a lot to learn from us, we have a lot to learn from >> them. And whoever is seeking free knowledge in Norwegian on the web will >> have more alternatives. >> >> Finn Rindahl >> >> 2009/2/25 John at Darkstar <[email protected]> >> >> > Our "national lexicon" here in Norway, Store Norske Leksikon, went >> > online with its new free edition today. The new edition has user >> > contributed articles. The chief editor says some of the reason for the >> > new edition is the harsh competition from Wikipedia, especially >> > no.wikipedia.org which outnumbered their previous article count last >> > year, now counting 209,079 articles. Also the alternate version >> > nn.wikipedia.org (a variation in Nynorsk) is growing steadilly, now >> > counting 46,466 articles. Store Norske Leksikon now claims they has >> > 300,000 articles after inclusion of two other encyclopedias, a medical >> > encyclopedia Store medisinske leksikon and a biographical encyclopedia >> > Biografisk leksikon. Previously they had 155,000 articles. >> > >> > Wikipedia in bokmål should have 300K articles around February or March >> > next year, it depends on how we will be influenced by the changes in SNL. >> > >> > John Erling Blad >> > jeblad >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > foundation-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- André Engels, [email protected] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
