[Foundation-l] Wikinews Licensing

Fri Dec 3 09:14:43 UTC 2004

On 3 Dec 2004 17:28:17 +0900
 wiki_tomos <wiki_tomos at inter7.jp> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jens Ropers <ropers at ropersonline.com>
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 01:47:22 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikinews Licensing
> 
> >(1)
> >While WP compatibility might seem like a real important
> and convenient 
> >thing, IMHO coming to that conclusion is fallacious (as
> in [[logical 
> >fallacy]]):
> >- WP compatibility is pretty much only needed if people
> want to 
> >DUPLICATE (ie. not rewrite) content from the WP.
> >- Wikinews was was expressly advertised as a project
> that would NOT 
> >simply duplicate WP content.
> >Thus, I believe the "requirement" for WP license
> compatibility is much 
> >less than one might think.
> 
> Looking at the Wikinews articles I was involved in so
> far, it 
> seems that taking materials from Wikipedia does not
> happen much.
> 
> If Wikinews articles can be incorporated into Wikipedia
> article, 
> that would be good. I am guessing that the need for
> Wikinews to 
> incorporate Wikipedia articles is quite limited. 
> 
> Regarding the license poll, I noticed that the people who
> expressed 
> their opinions are not necessarily the active
> participants on 
> Wikinews so far. I am not sure what to make of it, but I
> wonder 
> if only Wikinews participants will vote on the license
> issue, or 
> any Wikimedian can vote. The former has some intuitive
> appeal, but 
> there aren't that many active participants yet. I think
> it is okay 
> to delay the vote until there will be more active users
> on Wikinews. 
> For a while, Wikinews contents are under public domain -
> it is like 
> a opening special give-away for potential re-users. 
> 
> There is virtually no discussion on license issue on
> wikinews. The 
> biggest discussion so far among the participants is if we
> would like 
> to publish unreviewed articles on the main page (the
> community is 
> really divided on this), and if and how we want to change
> the reveiw process. 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Tomos
> thanks a million for that bit of news.it is really
interesting and i will think on
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