[Foundation-l] WikiNews...no NOT Wikinews

Etienne Beaule betienne at bellaliant.net
Mon Feb 27 20:27:20 UTC 2012


Will not be competing that well, we are number one and on google, and yahoo,
it does not show the new WikiNews.


On 12-02-27 4:03 PM, "Jason Safoutin" <jason.safoutin at wikinewsie.org> wrote:

> This is interesting. Upon my daily sift through Google News for agencies
> that might post Wikinews articles, I came across this (A video from
> WikiNews...no not Wikinews):http://vimeo.com/35988111  It was posted on
> another site a week ago:http://www.vhx.tv/644528  I don't know who made the
> video.
> All I know is this poses a potential threat to our project. I don't know
> enough
> about copyright laws in regards to the use of Wikipedia's project names
> or the use of logos. Regardless, this is not good and quite frankly
> kinda scared me a little. So I am sending this message through Foundation-1 in
> hopes that someone might be able to explain this. Wikinews Water Cooler
> discussion
> on this:
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/miscellaneous#WikiNews_makes
> _a_video...
>   






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