David Gerard (fun@thingy.apana.org.au) [041203 21:45]:
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.
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.