Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/8 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: For example, if the survey had shown community credit to be highly desired and not controversial at all, that would be interesting: We could have an informed conversation about

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Wikipedia on xkcd

2009-03-08 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/8 Aphaia aph...@gmail.com: I would like to encourage Simple English Wikipedia fans to blog about it ... particularly if you are non-English native speakers. The wiki is just not known. They might know their mother tongue Wikipedia and English one but not Simplewiki. I find it

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread John at Darkstar
Some options may be out of the question due to local law. John Erik Moeller skrev: 2009/3/7 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: I'm curious, why did you include options that aren't actually available? No credit and credit to the community are clearly not in keeping with the license, so

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/3/8 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: For example, if the survey had shown community credit to be highly desired and not controversial at

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/8 John at Darkstar vac...@jeb.no: One person told me that attribution of a single article and a bigger collection could be made different. That is, a single printed copy of an article could use a credit of Wikipedia and a mirror on a website could use a history link. We don't have to

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: Crediting Wikipedia would never be acceptable under CC-by-SA, since existing contributions weren't made under a terms of service that required permission be granted for such attribution. True, but would the Creative

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/8 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: Crediting Wikipedia would never be acceptable under CC-by-SA, since existing contributions weren't made under a terms of service that required permission be granted for such

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Wikipedia on xkcd

2009-03-08 Thread David Goodman
There has been considerable argument here has been that it ought to be allowed. Speaking for myself, there are two I think I might be able to mange to work in , though i wouldn't attempt to write anything substantial for the regular versions. English speakers need encouragement not to be

Re: [Foundation-l] Biographies of Living People: a quick interim update

2009-03-08 Thread Nathan
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: 1) There is a big unresolved question around whether, if marginally-notable people ask to have their articles deleted, that request should be granted. My sense -both from the discussion here and other discussions

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-08 Thread Michael Snow
Erik Moeller wrote: 2009/3/7 Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu: Ultimately it does not seem reasonable to force the printing of a URL on non-hypertext mediums. I still believe we ought to avoid explicit distinction between media forms because I think these distinctions are inherently

[Foundation-l] wikimania bidding cities

2009-03-08 Thread phoebe ayers
Hello all, Bidding is now closed for Wikimania 2010! The bidding cities are Oxford, Amsterdam, Gdansk, and Philadelphia. The bidding cities now have a month to complete work on their bids, after which a public meeting will be held to answer questions and the Jury will evaluate the bids. Also, a