Wondering if we could work this in somehow...
Mubarak is going to leave Egyptby during this week and he will be heading to Saudi Arabia. The dumbest thing he did during the protest is ask the army to control the protesters. The army and police in Egypt could not be more different. The police are there to enforce the law of the government no-matter if the the law is right or wrong (Pro-government), and in Egypt they are as corrupt as they come (You can by them with 100 Egyptian bounds). The army of the other hand is their to protect the people and the country from all enemies (domestic or otherwise) so they tend to be more supportive of the people (Pro-Protesters); and in Egypt the army is highly respected throughout Egypt history.
That's content from a competing news source! No way!
Having said that, we allow PD sources such as VoA to be used as actual content; CC-BY-3.0 is a compatible licence with Wikinews. We're allowed to use it if we want, it's an editorial choice and not a legal one.
Did I mention that you appear to have accidentally used Papyrus in your signature, Mono?
And this is the wrong namespace for this sort of discussion :D
If you 'dare post VoA propaganda, I'll arrange an extraordinary rendition, and you can sit with that as your only news source before debating if they're unbiased.
We don't allow unfiltered VoA; some people have exploited the compatible licensing. Guess what? That 'hope of ignorance/unwariness' is intentional, or at least a most fortuitous side-effect of USA inc. publication policy.
Apologies for the unfortunate wording of my above post. My point was simply (meant to be) that we are allowed to post VoA drivel, but that we choose not to (for good reason). It's always fun when a "reliable and authorative" news source shows "objective" news features trying to imply that the fall of Saddam Hussein was the trigger of the Tunisian protests.
So?
(as a Commons user) was there really a reason for Wikinews to not include this, maybe with some editorial commentary? Seeing Al Jazeera as a competitor is pathetic—surely you can't be serious. Especially considering that the Wikimedia projects don't have any similar coverage. Innotata (w) 03:27, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
We can't use the video that is the point of the above comments. It is copyright Al Jazeera. Us using that would be the same as Wikipedia using text from the current Britannica.
It's CC-BY. It would be the same as Britannica using text from Wikipedia (legitimate and legal, but possibly innappropriate).
CC-BY is the license Wikinews is under; Wikinews didn't have contributors uploading videos at the time. Actually, Brittanica does use images from Wikipedia & Wikimedia Commons, so not sure that's a good example.
Wouldn't it be the same as news agencies using photos from Reuters? Except here, using the CC-BY license rather than money.
I was looking through the other media Al Jazeera has released, and it appears that the English Wikinews didn't end up using any, even where no other free media existed, quite unlike other projects.
This looks like it's part of a bizarre attitude to how to be a news website, very different from that of Wikipedia to being an encyclopedia or any other Wikimedia project to its aim; this is one of the reasons I don't contribute to Wikinews.