[SCC_Active_Members] Wikipedia

[HMG via SBC]

I'm not quite so enthusiastic about this.  The problem is that "SCC" itself
might require the context implied by "CHM-SCC", and that (a) we would
require "official" permission to do this as some Wikipedia readers might
think that we were speaking for CHM, and (b) that SCC really should not
speak for CHM.

That said, informal connections between SCC (or, better, ordinary
connections by SCC members) with Wikipedia might create mutual value.

Best wishes, Henry
 
H.M. Gladney, Ph.D.   http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney    (408)867-5454

-----Original Message-----
From: scc_active-bounces at computerhistory.org
[mailto:scc_active-bounces at computerhistory.org] On Behalf Of Ward Cunningham
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 4:24 PM
To: Bernard L. Peuto
Cc: SCC_active at computerhistory.org; LMM at acm.org
Subject: [SCC_Active_Members] Wikipedia


On Aug 13, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Bernard L. Peuto wrote:

> Concerning the Wikipedia. I think that we should provide a complete 
> historical experience for our web site visitors and I would not be too 
> keen to point to other sites for the kind of content commonly found in 
> the Wikipedia. That information should be directly accessible to our 
> own visitors. Since duplicating their work would not make sense 
> either, I would recommend that we cite them with permission.

I think it would be awesome for SCC and Wikipedia to be feeding
complementary content to each other on a regular basis. -- Ward
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