Discussion on task force mandate

Great ideas! I would encourage everyone reading this discussion to make other specific suggestions about how to avoid duplication of effort and optimise editors' efforts who want to contribute to both Wikinews and Wikipedia. 71.211.240.226 19:01, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

71.211.240.22619:01, 23 November 2009

Whoops, thought I was logged in - that was me asking for more ideas. Valerie Stone Drvestone 19:04, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Drvestone19:04, 23 November 2009
 

Perhaps some time would be saved if it were possible to include some background material from pedia without actually having to re-type or copy+paste it into news. You're all familiar how templates work? Well, for example if you would be able to bring in the introduction from pedia article in the same way to news article, it could save some time.

Example new wikinews article

  • Template "{{w:en:XX/Intro}}" would display the first few lines of the wikipedia article about XX (no need to copy/paste or write again) in the wikinews article
  • Template "{{w:en:Miles Davis/Infobox}}" would display the infobox from the wikipedia article, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis (wouldn't that box with Miles' picture be great in wikinews article?)
Ras08:37, 29 November 2009
 

Just noting that the current licencing would need to be changed. As it stands, per Wikipedia:Wikinews "Moving pages to Wikinews is not possible, for legal reasons. Copying material to Wikinews would relicense it under the CC-BY license, which is incompatible with CC-By-SA and GFDL. However Wikinews articles can be moved to Wikipedia."

AlexandrDmitri23:36, 11 December 2009