[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikinews-l] Licensure straw poll

Tue Aug 30 23:03:44 UTC 2005

On 8/30/05, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm forwarding this to Wikipedia and Foundation-l since the poll could
> potentially make Wikinews incompatible with Wikipedia or any of our
> other projects. Currently, content from Wikinews can be used in
> Wikipedia (though not the other way around). CC-BY-SA is not
> compatible with the GNU FDL, so this would not longer be the case.

For what it's worth, it makes little sense for Wikipedia to use
Wikinews content beyond what's considered fair use. Wikinews is not an
encyclopedia and tries to not have any encyclopedic articles, and the
Wikipedia "current events" section is really short enough of a mention
that it's fair use at worst and wholly original at best.

-ilya haykinson
 en.wikinews