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January 27, 2004 3:38 PM - comments (9)

Yup. Just what you think it is. Check it out.

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January 27, 2004 10:03 PM Evan Prodromou:

We could always use more info on Tokyo, Dr. Lessig.

January 28, 2004 6:33 AM Rob:

For many of the countries, the listings are simply a copy from the CIA Factbook (which is allowable since it is public domain). When there is such large scale copying of information I think it should be sourced. Some of the data (i was looking in Costa Rica) was more up to date on the CIA site than on Wikitravel, which is fine, but it makes me wonder how it will be kept up to date.

Overall, good idea, I will continue to watch it (and contribute!).

January 28, 2004 7:02 AM impartial observer:

By the looks of it, Larry is regressing... Nice picture!

January 28, 2004 10:24 AM Giorgio Baresi:

If you are looking to a more complete open content travel guide you can visit World66: you'll find more than 40.000 articles licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 Licence.

January 28, 2004 10:55 AM Evan Prodromou:

Rob: each of the articles that was imported from the CIA factbook has a disclaimer at the beginning of the article to that effect. As we gradually "de-factbookize" those articles, we take out the CIA factbook information.

Giorgio: I recently saw that you'd switched over to the by-sa 1.0. That's great! One question I have, though, is how the heck did you do it? Getting approval from that many contributors to relicense their work (from the GNU Free Documentation License, which they submitted it under) seems an astronomical task. We're going to have to do something along the same lines when (if!) we switch to the by-sa 2.0, so I'd love to get some advice.

January 30, 2004 8:38 PM David Wilson:

I added Minneapolis, why not?

February 4, 2004 8:21 PM madloons:

great information

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