[Foundation-l] Wikinews Licensing

Fri Dec 3 12:40:13 UTC 2004

Aaargh. No, kill me, actually, for replying to your prev post just now.
When going through these posts "latest first", I should consider that 
the question may already have been answered later in the queue.

--ropers

On 3 Dec 2004, at 11:57, David Gerard 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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