Ads are perfectly fine. Pretty much as long as you give us the credit
line, you can do whatever you want with it (or as
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ puts it, you are free to
share, transmit, re-use, modify, or adapt, even in a commercial
manner, as long as attribution is provided).
cheers.
-bawolff
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Gianni Sabbione
<gsabbione(a)argentina.com> wrote:
> Thank you Bawolff! I will be supporting it via ads, is there any problem
> with that?
>
> Regards,
> Juan
>
> ----- Mensaje original -----
> Fecha: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 20:55:35 -0400
> De: "bawolff" <bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com>
> Para: "Wikinews mailing list" <wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Asunto: Re: [Wikinews-l] News sharing
> Copia: gsabbione(a)argentina.com
>
> Not only is it ok, its encouraged. All you have to do, is for anything
> that you add which is based on something from wikinews, at the end of
> the article, add a line like:
>
> This article is based on the Wikinews article "<article title at
> wikinews>" which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution
> 2.5 license
>
> And have the word Wikinews linked to http://en.wikinews.org , have
> "<article title at wikinews>" linked to the specific article on
> wikinews, and Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license linked to
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
>
>
> Please also note that well the text of the article is licensed under
> the cc-by 2.5, images typically are not. Before copying an image, you
> should check its copyright status (click on the image in question).
> Typically you can copy the images as well, but sometimes they require
> different attributions.
>
> Cheers, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
> --
> - Bawolff
> Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85
> million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight.
>
> p.s. I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. If you need legal
> advice you should ask a lawyer. There is always the possibility I am
> incorrect in my understanding of how the world works, and could be
> wrong.
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Gianni Sabbione <gsabbione(a)argentina.com>
> wrote:
>> Hello, I am opening a free news service website and I want to add some
>> news
>> from Wikinews. I have read that it can be done via "Creative Commons"
>> licensing, is it OK?
>>
>> Thanks a lot in advance,
>> Juan
>> _______________________________________________
>> Wikinews-l mailing list
>> Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
>>
>>
Hello, I am opening a free news service website and I want to add some news from Wikinews. I have read that it can be done via "Creative Commons" licensing, is it OK?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Juan
Mike Peel has near-confirmed/agreed to do WikiVoices #51 (previously Not
the Wikipedia Weekly). I'm there, Durova is ringmaster, and Jimmy Wales
will also be in on it.
It's the 23rd, 8pm UK time, and via Skype, a Skypecast (funny name for a
podcast) should be available shortly thereafter.
The idea is to see if a few Wikinews articles can be put together during
the recording session. Up to around 15 additional call-ins can be
supported provided people mute mics as appropriate to avoid a "wall of
background noise".
It will also be another point to promote Wikinews' 2010 writing contest,
which starts on January 25. Alas, so far we've not dug up any prizes -
in a couple of previous competitions I've put up some cash - the idea of
it being "paid editing" goes away when you're looking at about
10p/article.
Please complain bitterly, but *constructively*, about any of the
neglected Wikinews landing or help pages; if you've a relative that
relates you the news blow-by-blow, send them our way, and if you're a
twit, send it out with the #wikiwednesday tag.
Competition:
http://enwn.net/WWC2010
WikiVoices #51
http://enwn.net/7F9Cf
The "for Wikipedians" Wikinews intro
http://enwn.net/197b
The "for your friends who might try" Wikinews intro
http://enwn.net/6bc42
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It's happening again :)
Wikimedia Strategy Project office hours on IRC (#wikimedia-strategy at
freenode) are Wednesday from 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is:
Tuesday, 8-9pm PST
Tuesday, 11pm-12am EST
You can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and
filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You
may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine.
Another option is http://chat.wikizine.org.
For more information about IRC clients, go to the Wikipedia entry on
IRC or the Meta page on Wikimedia IRC.
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Wikinews WikiParty!
[No! This does not mean I wear my kilt Cary.]
This will be the first time ever that Jimmy Wales has done WikiVoices
(previously: Not the Wikipedia Weekly), *and* it's on Wikinews.
George Watson (Dendodge) has said he should be able to do this too.
Just in case not, I'd welcome a standby or two; you *need* Skype, and a
headset or other good microphone. Considering French Wikinews is working
towards getting listed in GNews, it would be really nice to have someone
from there in - even if not for the full session. That's in addition to
Dendodge. One of Wikinews' strengths is the international nature; moving
to two of the top Western languages being in GNews is good news.
An as-yet unconfirmed attendee is Rory Cellan-Jones, one of the
semi-geeky, and semi-independent, journalists that works with/for the
BBC. So, yes, I have high hopes of this getting Wikinews some publicity.
Set diverse alarms for making sure you're in IRC, tracking recent
changes, and anything else like that during the recording and few hours
after. I'll try and get Durova to give fair warning of the actual
Skypecast going up on Wikipedia - there will likely be another spike
then.
Regrettably, ShakataGaNai will have to earn his 1% when this is
happening; I considered a Prozac prescription. But, he'd just smile more
while blowing people off the Internet for trolling and POV-pushing.
And if you do have Skype, there will be a text chat session too,
everyone writing on Wikinews who can be involved in that, should.
-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Jimmy Wales
> To: Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org>
> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:34:25 -0800
>
> On my calendar!
> Brian McNeil wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:32 -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> >> What exact date/time?
> >>
> >> Brian McNeil wrote:
> >
> >>> I've put up a date/time marked as provisional...
> >>>
> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikivoices#Episode_51
> >>>
> >>> Kinda had to do this when I've perhaps landed Rory Cellan-Jones from the
> >>> BBC as a participant.
> >
> > Time (provisional): Wednesday December 23, 2009 (1200 PST 2000 UTC)
> >
> > That's 3pm in Florida - I think.
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NB! This email is CC'd to several people who have requested parts of
Flagged Revisions be enabled on various Wikinews language versions. I
would urge these recipients to subscribe to wikinews-l.
I would like to see so as many language versions of Wikinews as possible
listed in Google News. Erik Moeller, WMF Deputy CEO, graciously put me
in touch with someone who helped make it happen for English Wikinews, as
far as I can tell it should be possible for
English
French
Hungarian
Polish
Portuguese
Spanish
There are processes that need to be visible to Google and assure them of
certain editorial controls, and at the moment there are some technical
kludges required to meet other requirements laid out by Google.
For technical issues, some work is being done on a new MediaWiki
extension:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20818
Hopefully Amgine will have another patch on offer soon, but I encourage
all Wikinewsies to vote for this bug.
For non-English Wikinews editions, I'm happy to try and help get
appropriate pages interlinked and presented to Google as proof of
editorial control. Bawolff can also help with some of the technical
measures and helper tools.
Ideally, given the six languages above, Google News could list us in a
special way where a story is covered in several languages.
I would also like to see the upcoming Writing contest
( http://enwn.net/WC2010 ) expanded to languages that can get a Google
News listing before the start date. This might encourage Google to
sponsor a prize or two in light of having to implement measures to limit
public access to certain newspaper websites.
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There's a new question of the week at Strategy wiki - http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Question_of_the_week
This week's question is:
The Wall Street Journal published an article last week detailing the
research of Felipe Ortega, indicating that the number of editors has
declined in recent years. Representatives from the Wikimedia
Foundation, meanwhile, noted that a different methodology indicates
that the number of active editors has in fact stabilized in the same
time period--as opposed to having declined.
Regardless of the methodological differences, there appears to be a
consensus that the Wikipedia community is becoming less friendly,
particularly for new users. A few relevant data points:
Ed Chi's research (at the Palo Alto Research Center) indicates that
new editors see 25% of their edits reverted
Comments left on the blog for the WSJ article indicate that a number
of editors have left because of unfriendly treatment from other
editors (e.g., edits reverted without explanations of why), and
comments on this Wiki have echoed this impression
Proposals on this Wiki have indicated that a good reward system for
contributions does not exist
Given all of the above, how could the community better reward
contributions and nurture new editors? How can the Wikimedia projects
become a friendlier and more welcoming place to share knowledge?
We'd love to have your input on the talk page of that question!
Philippe
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I've decided that now is a *very* appropriate time to, once again, try
and restart discussion on Wikipedia paying more than lipservice to
Wikinews as the appropriate venue for news coverage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Brian_McNeil#.22Recent.22_templates
These appear to be most of the enWP templates which caution that a
section of the encyclopedia relates to *news*. You can see the additions
I've made to highlight Wikinews coverage where it exists, and if not,
urge people to contribute on Wikinews.
This went down quite badly last time. I'll bite my tongue and just
describe the reaction to such a link on Ted Kennedy's death as
"hostile". Realistically, this needs to come as a significant push from
someone like Jimmy.
Anyway, any thoughts on fine-tuning this? Please note, I've put tooltips
on all the given links. There are cases where a long Wikinews title
would mess the template on Wikipedia, so I hide the title in the
tooltip.
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