[Foundation-l] Wikinews Licensing

Fri Dec 3 10:57:25 UTC 2004

David Gerard (fun at thingy.apana.org.au) [041203 21:45]:
> Jens Ropers (ropers at ropersonline.com) [041203 11:47]:

> > (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.

> I'd disagree, actually. Have you noticed how a breaking news story article
> comes together on Wikipedia? It's like seeing a newsmagazine feature being
> composed before your eyes. And a lot of stuff on wikinews-l is actually
> newsmagazine-quality writing, not necessarily simple-grammar
> inverted-pyramid newspaper-style information. So I think a lot of the stuff
> on wikinews, we really will want to just copy from Wikinews to Wikipedia.

I should of course read before writing. (I plead a severely sleep-deprived
week of on-call.) You are of course talking about WP->WN, not the other way
around.

kiiillllll meeeeee. But give me coffee first.  (Caffeine is *not* a
substitute for sheep.)

- d.