- From: Mischa Tuffield <mischa@mmt.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:53:07 +0000
- To: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
- Cc: thomas lörtsch <thomas@stray.net>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Received on Tuesday, 17 January 2012 13:53:41 UTC
On 17 Jan 2012, at 13:40, Karl Dubost wrote: > > Le 17 janv. 2012 ā 07:37, thomas lörtsch a écrit : >> But I would argue in favor of shutting down dbpedia alongside wikipedia. Of course it causes a little pain to researchers and administrators > > > * The goal of shutting down? Personally, I think it would be a show of support for English Wikipedia's blackout tomorrow, and that it all. Given that dbpedia exists because of wikipedia, I think it would be nice to show and honour the wikipedians' desire to blackout in protest. > * The message left in place of shutting down? Something similar to above, with a link to the wikimediafoundation article https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_to_go_dark > * reaching the right community that would need to be educated about SOPA? A bunch of grad students, researcher, and/or academics might notice, but agreed, it wont even have a fraction of the same impact as shutting down en.wikipedia... Mischa > Depending on the answers to these questions, you might or not shut down. > > > -- > Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/ > Developer Relations, Opera Software > > _____________________________ Mischa Tuffield PhD http://mmt.me.uk/ http://mmt.me.uk/foaf.rdf#mischa
Received on Tuesday, 17 January 2012 13:53:41 UTC