On 8/30/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
I'm forwarding this to Wikipedia and Foundation-l since the poll could potentially make Wikinews incompatible with Wikipedia or any of our other projects. Currently, content from Wikinews can be used in Wikipedia (though not the other way around). CC-BY-SA is not compatible with the GNU FDL, so this would not longer be the case.
For what it's worth, it makes little sense for Wikipedia to use Wikinews content beyond what's considered fair use. Wikinews is not an encyclopedia and tries to not have any encyclopedic articles, and the Wikipedia "current events" section is really short enough of a mention that it's fair use at worst and wholly original at best.
-ilya haykinson en.wikinews