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.

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