Chris-
1) The appropriate list to discuss whether a particular project can be part of the Wikimedia set of projects is http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l I've therefore CC'd my response there.
2) Generally, Wikimedia projects are very broad. There is only one notable exception to that rule, the recently created Wikispecies (which is why I think it should be incorporated into a larger Wikidata project).
It has been proposed in the past to have a "Wikipolicy" project as a sort of open brainstorming space for determining useful political policies on various issues. That might be an idea worth developing further, but I would oppose a narrow project like Wise-Nano.
3) All text-centric projects are under the GNU FDL (Wikispecies licensing is not decided yet), so that would have to be the license to use.
Regards,
Erik
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