As Magnus said, I had also the idea of incorporate amazon affiliate
some months ago but I'm not sure if it will change the status of
Wikipedia as a non-profit organization. Since amazon pages are
sometimes used as a reliable source for information about books, CDs,
etc. To successfully take advanta
On 03/12/10 13:09, Magnus Manske wrote:
> This stuff will apparently show up in Amazon search results soon-ish:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/wiki/James_Joyce
>
> Interesting idea, though I find it slightly disturbing for some reason...
>
> ___
> WikiEN-l mai
The citation for wikipedia according to wikipedia would look like this:
James Joyce. (2010, December 3). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
Retrieved 10:24, December 4, 2010, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Joyce&oldid=400394336
see
:http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?titl
We can't blame Amazon if they take "You should not cite any particular
author or authors" literally. I suspect they've read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_content they
seem to be complying with the bit about linking to our articles.
Lots of people mirror Wikipedia, or par
Two things that lead me to suspect our proportion of stubs may be
slowly falling:
1 The size of the database in gigabytes has been growing faster than
the the number of articles
2 Even though our total number of articles is still slowly increasing
and will probably soon exceed 3.5 million, if we
WereSpielChequers, All,
> 1 The size of the database in gigabytes has been growing faster than
> the the number of articles
This is a weak argument. The constant activity of interwiki bots alone will add
a huge amount of database storage space without increasing the real length of
the articles.
On 4 December 2010 11:38, WereSpielChequers wrote:
> Lots of people mirror Wikipedia, or parts of it, is Amazon doing
> anything different? If not have we brought this to their attention?
The copyright reuse is probably OK, maybe with little details around
the edges. The point of free content i
