Dear Sirs,

We represent News Search Engine RedTram (http://www.redtram.com/) and would like to add wikinews.org news leads to our news database in different languages. Is it possible for us to get the right to broadcast your news via our news search engine with links to wikinews.org? Maybe it's possible that you provide us with RSS-feeds?

I think that there is no argument against broadcasting Wikinews articles via your news search engine. (Does anyone disagree?) Wikinews articles are released under the terms of the CC-BY 2.5 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/).

There are several RSS-feeds: http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews (English) http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/wikinews-rss/rss-de.php (German) http://www.feedfire.com/site/rss.cgi?ChanContentId=009340 (Spanish) http://tools.wikimedia.pl/~derbeth/wikinews.xml (Polish)

Could you please give us contact information of the person with whom we can discuss the question described above and also the person in charge of technical issues?

Perhaps someone who feels responsible and able can answer to this question.

Project info: RedTram has more than 320 000 visitors daily. RedTram is a multi-language site that delivers news in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian. RedTram contains more then 1300 English news sources.

Regards, Stefan

Hello Maria Shinkevich!

Your message was forwarded to the Wikinews mailing list, and we've been discussing it, but you might not have been CC'd on all the replies, so allow me to make a single over-view response.

SonicR noted there is no limitation to broadcasting our news, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license version 2.5 (a description of Creative Commons licenses may be found on the English Wikipedia at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Creative_Commons_License>, the actual licensure synopsis and legal text may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/

He also noted there are several RSS-feeds for different languages of Wikinews: http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews (English) http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/wikinews-rss/rss-de.php (German) http://www.feedfire.com/site/rss.cgi?ChanContentId=009340 (Spanish) http://tools.wikimedia.pl/~derbeth/wikinews.xml (Polish)

Michael Danko also talked about how the CC-by license allows re-use of our content, and pointed out the following statement on the English Wikinews home page: "All content is released under a free license. By making our content perpetually available for free redistribution and use, we hope to contribute to a global digital commons."

I can serve as a volunteer contact person for your organization. I will forward more contact information shortly, but feel free to e- mail me immediately. I can put you in touch with technical people as necessary.

Amgine aka Wayne Saewyc

On 19-Aug-06, at 11:47 PM, Wikimedia Foundation wrote:

Dear Maria Shinkevich,

Thank you for your mail.

I invite you to discuss this issue with wikinewsies. The following mailing list can help you: wikinews-l@wikimedia.org

Best regards

Florence Devouard

"Maria Shinkevich" mariashine@redtram.com écrit:

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Dear Sirs,

We represent News Search Engine RedTram (http://www.redtram.com/) and would like to add wikinews.org news leads to our news database in different languages. Is it possible for us to get the right to broadcast your news via our news search engine with links to wikinews.org? Maybe it's possible that you provide us with RSS-feeds?

Could you please give us contact information of the person with whom we can discuss the question described above and also the person in charge of technical issues?

Project info: RedTram has more than 320 000 visitors daily. RedTram is a multi-language site that delivers news in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian. RedTram contains more then 1300 English news sources.

We hope to hear from you soon.

Best regards,

Maria Shinkevich

RedTram Project Laguage Versions Coordinator

E-mail: mariashine --at-- redtram.com

MSN: mounne@rambler.ru

URL: www.redtram.com http://www.redtram.com/

Yours sincerely,

Florence Devouard

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