10. What "open content" means, again
As we begin to accept and post our first articles, there should be a
reminder
of what "open content" means, since this is an "open content"
encyclopedia. It means that you, or anyone, will be able to copy
the
contents of Nupedia articles, for whatever purposes (such as educational
but also for-profit purposes), so long as they link back to Nupedia (or,
in print, properly credit us). Soon after our first articles
appear, we
will work on a way to make the articles easily available to those who
wish to create Nupedia mirror websites and to use them in other
ways.
In this way we hope to achieve the highest possible distribution of the
materials that you are helping to create.
We want to thank our first writers, peer reviewers, and editors for
their
patience and hard work. It will start paying off soon, we
think.
Also, we can anticipate making our second press release before the end of
August; this will generate considerable public attention, we
think.
Final comment: Larry Sanger, Nupedia Editor-in-Chief, has a birthday
July 16. His only birthday request is
article proposals! Bear in mind, initial articles can be quite
brief.
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