User talk:Fxmastermind

And I thought Wikipedia was bad ...
This looks like an even greater time sink. Fxmastermind (talk) 06:31, 10 August 2009 (UTC)


 * To answer the question on your user page. Wikipedia is copyrighted - but not in the normal sense. Everytime you hit save page, you retain the copyrights to whatever you write. However you agree to let the entire world use it, as long as they meet some conditions (they have to give you credit, and if they modify, they have to let everyone else use their modifications). in essence wikipedia is copyright every single person who has ever hit save page. Thats a bit of a simplification though, See w:Wikipedia:Copyright for more details (Wikinews is similiar, but slightly different, See Copyright for us.) Cheers. Bawolff ☺☻ 06:35, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Timesink
Yes, Wikinews is an even greater timesink than Wikipedia. Here you have to research and write an entire article all at once, and you have to do it while the news is still timely (basically within 48 hours of the event), else it stops being news. On Wikipedia you can take *months* to write an article that has to be done here in *hours*. Gopher65talk 15:42, 10 August 2009 (UTC)