[Fwd: Re: [pp.int.general] EU social network spy system: NDECT]

[Brian McNeil-2]

The attached email highlights an article from English Wikinews which has
been translated into German and published.

It's all fair and above-board; they've credited Wikinews (with link to
dewn), and as I say in the attached, there's absolutely no reason why
the translation couldn't be cut and pasted from there into German
Wikinews.

Considering the English version[1], I'm not too sure what the stance of
German Wikinews contributors is on fair use; I've assumed the video is ©
someone in the EU, and use it in its entirety via a local upload.

The consensus among English Wikinews contributors is that - if our
"Exemption Doctrine Policy" doesn't currently cover this piece of media,
we should promptly amend it so that it does.


[1]
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Listening_to_you_at_last:_EU_plans_to_tap_cell_phones

--
Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil@...>
Wikinewsie.org

On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 18:55 +0000, Brian McNeil wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:25 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > We are also discussing measures against Indect. First of all: to raise
> >     public awareness in the german speaking regions, because the topic hast
> >     not been
> >     covered by our media (nor de.wikipedia) at all.
> >
> > You could translate the English wikipedia into German and post
> > it in de.wikipedia.org.
>
> Actually, *Wikipedia* doesn't have any article on INDECT; it's only
> mention is in the [[Mass surveillance]] article.
>
> Wikipedia has a no original research policy, so what I did on Wikinews
> is right out. The other thing is, I don't notice a "Request an article"
> link on Wikipedia anymore.

This [1] is the first substantial coverage I've seen in German from a
Google News alert, and it's effectively a full translation of the
article I wrote on English Wikinews.

[1] http://archiv.c6-magazin.de/06/news/?neuigkeit=3090

How notable, respected, widely read, is this German source?

And, are there any wiki-savvy German speakers who could cut this from
that source and put it on de.wikinews.org? I don't believe they have it;
if they did, someone would have added an interlanguage link to the
English version. All the licensing is completely in order to permit
this, I would just add that I think it would be the right thing to do to
credit the translation work to whoever carried it out.

It might not happen, but that would be an important step towards getting
an INDECT article in the German Wikipedia.


--
Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil@...>
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil
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