Thank god someone was paying attention and noticed Wikinews wasn't GFDL. I was busy compiling a list of people to flame into smoking craters until you started shouting about this. Don't dictate to smaller projects, an 800lb gorilla throwing its weight around is just going to end up being attacked with biplanes fitted with machine guns.
Now, where did I put those goggles I stole off Biggles?
Brian McNeil
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Whitworth Sent: 04 August 2008 17:24 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] It is high time we decided upon globalWikimedianprinciples
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Ting Chen Wing.Philopp@gmx.de wrote:
We have some fundamental rules, that at least theoretically should be implemented on all projects. That all content are under GFDL and should
thus be
granted free for ever is one of these rules. NPOV is another such rule.
Openness is
also a foundamental rule of all WikiMedia projects.
Again, and I really can't stress this enough: These "fundamental rules" are not global! en.wikinews DOES NOT USE THE GFDL. It uses CC-BY instead, which is still free but isn't the same thing. en.wikiversity, en.wikisource, and en.wikiquote have very different meanings for NPOV then en.wikiversity does. Do yourself a favor and check out WV's policy page on the matter:
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WV:NPOV
--Andrew Whitworth
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