[Foundation-l] wikinews and other stuff

[Andrew Lih]

We've recenly found GFDL to be a headache, and most wished that CC
existed at the start of WP so we could use it. Now that we're starting
Wikinews from scratch, is there any reason to stick with GFDL, other
than familiarity? I like the CC or special Wikimedia route. Perhaps we
could get Lessig to help craft one appropriate to our needs.

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)


On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:20:15 +1000, Robin Shannon
<robin.shannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay i have just gone through all the last bajllion emails from this
> list in the last couple of days when i should have been editing
> [[victor chang]], but never mind.
> 
> firstly, re: wikinews, it will be released under GFDL yes? which means
> that if CNN or BBC or ABC or NZBC or the guardian or even slashdot or
> a blog wanted to reproduce our wikinews article, then they would have
> to also reproduce the entire GFDL license (or did i read the GDFL
> incorrectly), which may well be twice as long as the news article. Has
> anyone else thought of this problem and come up with any solutions.
> Other than this my position on wikinews is not active support, but
> certainly close interest.
> 
> secondly, What the hell is the difference between wikicommons and
> wikisource? They both seem to me to be depositories for pd/gfdl
> primary sources.
> 
> thirdly, who's bright idea was it to make a user in wikipedia not a
> user in wiktionary, metawiki, etc. (and vice versa), is it too late to
> make every user a cross-wiki user, or are there already cross-overs
> (for example a [[user:jondoe]] in wiktionary and a different user but
> with the name [[user:jondoe]] in wikibooks?
> 
> fourthly, yes parenthisis are wonderful things. (perhaps this is in
> reply to en.wikpedia list, i cant remember)
> 
> fifthly, what would wikiverstiy offer that wikibooks doesnt? i fail to
> see how a wiki is capable of producing anything that a university
> offers other than text books (and class notes ect.). How is it going
> to be able to do dems and pracs, and class discussions?
> I really want to like the idea of wikiversity, but I'm gonna need some
> clarifying before ill do that.
> 
> sixthly, there is no sixthly.
> 
> paz e amor,
> 
> the bellman.
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Andrew Lih
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