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Interview with Jimbo Wales
xandroid writes to tell us that Wikinews has an interesting interview with Jimbo Wales of the Wikimedia Foundation. From the interview: "The [Wikinews] project is a bit over a year old, with the English and Deutsch editions opening their sites officially the first week of December, 2004. Since then the project has produced more than 13 000 articles in 16 languages, with recently created editions in Hebrew, Russian, and Japanese. The project has not been without its detractors, and the questions asked of Mr. Wales reflected some of the most common criticisms."
There's a difference between copying a small sample of an article into your blog for purposes of making snarky commentary about it (Fair Use) and rewriting the article entirely
Yes, there's a difference. But as rewriting the story entirely falls completely outside of the area of copyright law, I don't see what your point is. They can't copyright the substance of a story. Particularly not a true story. Anyone can rewrite it in their own words.
To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem. ~ h2g2
Parent is being misleading. You were blocked under the 3RR - which means that reverting an article more than 3 times in 24 hours leads to an automatic 24 hour block. The opinions of the admin don't come into it. The 3RR rule is a policy designed to prevent unproductive revert wars like that which you were involved in. In your case, if you felt that the argument wasn't going anywhere, you should put a request up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Request_for _comment or further a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation instead if escalating the conflict into a full blown where you are yelling at people:
"Look here you liar, you're the one out of loop and inserting nonsense, you're worse, you're a liar, and you know you are,"