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 > _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
