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FROM : Matthew Whillock DATE : Mon Nov 17 13:23:56 2008 Have a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varargs I know it's possible on linux/gcc so surely it works in osx.

IBM Developerworks: "You know Wikipedia, but do you know of the dozens of related sites that provide user-generated content that is just as valuable?

Many of the related sites under the Wikipedia umbrella are very useful to Web developers. Learn how to enrich your information space with resources beyond Wikipedia, including examples of widgets applying data from these sites."

Wikipedia is one of the preeminent examples of what can be done in an open setting; it has, over the years, accumulated millions of articles - many of them excellent - in a large number of languages.

Wikipedia also has a bit of a licensing problem, but it would appear that recent events, including the release of a new license by the Free Software Foundation, offers a way out.

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Open Enterprise: "There is an irony at the heart of the open content world: that the two biggest successes there -- Wikipedia and the Creative Commons movement -- cannot share content."

The Free Software Foundation has announced the release of version 1.3 of the GNU Free Documentation License.

The big change would appear to be a clause allowing FDL-licensed text to be relicensed to the Creative Commons attribution-sharealike license.

"This new permission has been added at the request of the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees the Wikipedia project.

The same terms are available to any public wiki that uses materials available under the new license.

MediaWiki -free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia

I'm studying the Debian wiki as well as the francophone Ubuntu Wiki and the Quebec project in Wikipedia. After some interviews in DebConf8, Mar del plata, Argentina, and after talking with developpers there, I realised there were very different views of the wiki within the Debian Community.

“We took a community distribution as released, downloaded the source, and ran it through a tool to count it, then put it into the Cocomo model that Wikipedia has.

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "This week's Monday Linux/Unix bash shell script brings us one step closer to the end of our "web-based-info-site command line program" project (And we'll never again hire anyone to name a project for us that gets paid by the word)"

On the other hand, "I think the more important news for Linux is that Wikipedia uses Linux!" yagu said. "While most people don't really care, it's something worth bragging about occasionally."