On 3 Dec 2004, at 11:42, David Gerard wrote:
Jens Ropers (ropers@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.
And you can do just that.
If Wikinews stays in the public domain, then you CAN simply copy content from Wikinews to the Wikipedia. What you may not be able to do easily (i.e. w/o checking with all relevant contributors) is copy content from the Wikipedia to Wikinews.
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