On 15 May 2010 18:30, River Tarnell <[email protected]> wrote:
> My initial thought would be that this is not allowed.  The exception for
> small extracts is intended for diffs and similar.  Actual definitions are
> basically the same as article text.
>
> However, WM-DE will need to provide a final opinion on this.

Ok.

Will I get a reply from them on this list, or should I forward my
query elsewhere?
In the event that I can't publish these files here, is there another
Wikimedia-related place I could?

Conrad

> River.  (Sorry for top-posting.)
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Conrad Irwin" <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, May 15, 2010 3:39 pm
> Subject: [Toolserver-l] How much wiki-data is too much?
> To: <[email protected]>
>
> I recently re-read the toolserver rools, and am concerned that
> publishing definitions extracted from XML dumps of en.Wiktionary may
> be in violation of rule 10.
>
> # Tools may not serve significant portions of wiki page text to
> clients. "Significant" means distributing actual page content; for
> example, installing MediaWiki to serve the text of wikis would not be
> allowed, but showing a short extract to provide context for a tool
> would be okay.
>
> Could someone please clarify whether this precludes publishing lots of
> short extracts combined? I had intended to (eventually) publish
> similar dumps of other information in Wiktionary (such as the
> Translations), so it would be nice to check that this is permitted on
> the toolserver, or whether I have to find some alternative hosting.
>
> The current output is at http://toolserver.org/~enwikt/definitions/
>
> Thanks
> Conrad
>

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