On 1 June 2011 03:22, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) I'd like to show them how Al Jazeera is publishing some of their footage > under cc-by and see whether ABC could feasibly do the same > http://cc.aljazeera.net/
Yessss. > 2) I'd like to see if the ABC News website would like to add in Wikipedia > Citation template code to it's pages, to make it easier for people to > footnote Australian news stories in WP. I'll be showing them how the > National Library of Australia already does this with their digitised > newspaper collection (e.g. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/628050 - > click on the "cite" button near the top left). I recall the ABC news site previously suffering a lot of temporary pages that disappeared after a time. Do they now keep everything forever, as e.g. the BBC do? > 3) Point out to them how they can, if they want, use Wikinews content even > more freely that Wikipedia because it is CC-BY. A bit of love for the non-Wikipedia projects is always good :-) > There are of course, no shortage of other potential things that the ABC and > Wikimedia could do, so if you've got something that you really want "put on > the table" please tell us. So do you know what the feel of the place towards Wikipedia and free culture in general is? Around the BBC it's a real cultural divide, bubbling under the mostly-united surface, between those who think it's *obvious* everything should be as free as possible, and those who think it's *obvious* this is regrettably impossible. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
