A poll is being held at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Licensure_Poll on whether or not to adopt the CC-by-sa 2.5 licensure for the Wikinews project.
This licensure allows any use of the articles so long as attribution credit is given to the Wikinews project and any derivations or further developments are released under an identical licensure.
The poll was suggested by jwales, and is short so the board may have an idea of how the community feels in time for their next meeting. Please visit the poll and vote; comment on the discussion page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikinews/Licensure_Poll).
Amgine
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.
Earlier polls and discussion are at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/License_straw_poll and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/License
Angela.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amgine amgine@saewyc.net Date: Aug 30, 2005 11:57 PM Subject: [Wikinews-l] Licensure straw poll To: Wikinews mailing list wikinews-l@wikimedia.org
A poll is being held at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Licensure_Poll on whether or not to adopt the CC-by-sa 2.5 licensure for the Wikinews project.
This licensure allows any use of the articles so long as attribution credit is given to the Wikinews project and any derivations or further developments are released under an identical licensure.
The poll was suggested by jwales, and is short so the board may have an idea of how the community feels in time for their next meeting. Please visit the poll and vote; comment on the discussion page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikinews/Licensure_Poll).
Amgine ___________
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
Just a brief update - on IRC #wikinews today, we agreed to leave some more time to explore additional options, so that voters are not limited to just saying "yes/no" to the CC-BY-SA. The poll is currently scheduled to begin on September 6, 20:00 UTC.
Please spread news about this poll on your local Wikinews language edition, and help to translate. (FWIW, I think the technical setup of the poll is quite neat, even though the transclusion leads to caching issues -- perhaps templates can be used instead next time, where the using pages are automatically purged on changes.)
Erik
Should we include this on Mediawiki:Sitenotice beginning September 6? Perhaps we should beging "hyping" it now.
-C.
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