On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 01:02 +0100, Milos Rancic wrote:
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
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Brian, please calm down. I am very sorry because you treated this idea as an insult and I am very sorry because I didn't finish my email today (before conversation escalated) because I've found "with:public" on Google Wave (btw, another, this time not problematic idea for Wikinews implementation: emitting news via Google Wave).
Milos, I'm calmed now - ran out of fuel for the flamethrower. It was a troll causing the problem. When you're caught up on the full list you should see that.
Also, two of you did exactly what did I ask not to do: to start an ideological discussion. (I may imagine how this idea would pass on foundation-l, where it could become a month long ideological battle.) Nobody is willing to implement something which has strong opposition inside of the community, even it may be completely OK from the formal side.
It is, and it is not, an ideological issue. I was quick to jump to why it was not possible within project scope or WMF mission; as well as some serious legal issues and liability you could be landed with.
And there are some more questions to discuss. But, it is too late for me. I promise I won't play [a lot] with Wave tomorrow and I'll write the answer here :)
Read the list carefully before you do so. Nobody wants to see ye-olde Wikipedia "right to fork [off]" arguments rehashed here. A fork-via-dump of a Wikinews project is useless without the contributors.
I'm all in favour of working to help commercial reuse of Wikinews content happen. I got a copy of the print edition semi-angrily waved at me by a press attendee when I spoke at Wikimania and I was asked, "why aren't you doing more with this?" We can. I'd like to see it happen - I think everyone would.