[Foundation-l] Wikinews Licensing

Fri Dec 3 12:12:52 UTC 2004

Well i have contributed 2 articles to wikinews so far, and one of them
i lifted (more or less) straight from wikipedia (from an article that
was written about 5 minutes before i sat down to write). I can think
that there would be plenty of times when lifting a paragraph or so
from wikipedia would be useful in wikinews. Hence while i would like
it to be PD, i think that GFDL (provided that becomes CC-BY-SA
complient sometime) would be the most practical.

paz y amor,
[[User:The bellman]]
rjs

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 21:57:25 +1100, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> 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.
> 
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