Hi there,
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That means you do not need explicit permission from anyone in order to use the content, as
long as the terms of the licence are met. This includes commercial reuse.
For more information see
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use and
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/.
The latest database dump of enwikinews was on 2 December 2022. If you need news as it
happens, you may find use of the Wikimedia API more suited for your use: see
https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Documentation/Getting_started and
https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/
This mailing list is fairly low-traffic and you may not get a response from a Wikinews
administrator willing to act as a contact for you. Wikinews administrators don't have
additional editorial authority over other users: they simply happen to be granted access
to a few special technical rights, like deleting pages and being able to block users.
Yours faithfully,
Douglas Gardner
[[User:Microchip08]]
On Fri, 9 Dec 2022, at 6:26 PM, tomoyuki jinno wrote:
Dear Wikinews Volunteers;
I am writing this e-mail to ask for a contact email address or a phone number for
Wikinews as a news publisher. I am also writing this e-mail to ask for general consent for
the articles on the Wikinews to be used on a mobile application for the purpose of English
language education.
I am currently in the process of developing a mobile application for English Language
education. The application presents users with sentences from a Wikinews article and asks
the users to fill in the blanked-out words. A link to the full article will be shown on
the same page, as shown in the screenshot provided as an attachment to this e-mail. These
news articles will be retrieved from the official Wikimedia dump files provided at:
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/, hence minimal strain on the Wikinews site will be expected.
I hope the use of the Wikinews articles in the application will help English language
learners learn more efficiently whilst increasing the exposure and traffic to the articles
from Wikinews.
Though no concrete decisions have been made at this stage, it is likely for the
application to be monetized through means of advertisement and premium features. I also
would like to stress that there will be no monetization conducted by the means of
restricting access to certain Wikinews articles. All users will be able to freely access
quizzes generated from any of the Wikinews articles as we firmly believe that it is only
ethical for us to profit from values that we have provided in addition, and not from the
sole products of volunteers who have contributed for free. There will also be no use of
the Wikinews logo or information that may give users a false sense of endorsement of the
app by the Wikinews community.
The application is currently in the stage of being reviewed before being published for an
open test in the Google Play Store. However, for it to be published under a News category,
it must provide valid contact information of the news publisher with at least an e-mail
address or a phone number. I shall think an e-mail address of a Wikinews administrator
will be sufficient for this role.
To summarize, I am asking for informal general consent of the community for the Wikinews
articles to be used in this project, and a contact e-mail address for Wikinews as a news
publisher.
I greatly respect the work done within Wikinews and hope that this project will have a
contributing impact on the Wikinews community. If you have any queries or issues regarding
the project or would like to have an access to the prototype of the application please
contact me at pimts98(a)gmail.com. I would also be grateful to talk to people who are just
interested.
Yours faithfully,
Genesis 11 Project Team
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