Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread Scott MacDonald
-Original Message- From: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l- boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Liam Wyatt Sent: 13 June 2011 06:20 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright Hi Scott, It was

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hm, I'm afraid that is not sufficient. :-) It's CC-BY-SA. Kind regards Ziko Thanks. I mean all they need to add is text taken from Wikipedia - it shouldn't be too hard. Scott ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread David Gerard
On 13 June 2011 09:23, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com wrote: Thanks. I mean all they need to add is text taken from Wikipedia - it shouldn't be too hard. Hm, I'm afraid that is not sufficient. :-) It's CC-BY-SA. *Surely* the NPG should be able to figure out that by doing this,

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread Scott MacDonald
Hm, I'm afraid that is not sufficient. :-) It's CC-BY-SA. *Surely* the NPG should be able to figure out that by doing this, they're leaving themselves wide open to copyright suits from all the hundreds of thousands of smart, motivated geeks who HIT THE GODDAMN ROOF when they sent that

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread David Gerard
On 13 June 2011 10:34, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: Personally, I would rather see this as an opportunity for friendly dialogue to help improve our working relationship. Absolutely, a non-apocalyptic response is desirable. However, they're still being blitheringly stupid and obnoxious, and

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 13 June 2011 09:47, Scott MacDonald doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote: Hm, I'm afraid that is not sufficient. :-) It's CC-BY-SA. *Surely* the NPG should be able to figure out that by doing this, they're leaving themselves wide open to copyright suits from all the hundreds of thousands of

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread Liam Wyatt
Scott, the director of rights and reproductions a the NPG kindly wrote directly back to me very quickly and said (quoting with permission): We did, indeed, investigate immediately. I am expecting changes to be made, shortly. So, I assume that not only will changes be made to their website soon

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread Scott MacDonald
-Original Message- From: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l- boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Liam Wyatt Sent: 14 June 2011 02:53 Cc: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright Scott, the

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread geni
On 13 June 2011 09:29, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: *Surely* the NPG should be able to figure out that by doing this, they're leaving themselves wide open to copyright suits from all the hundreds of thousands of smart, motivated geeks who HIT THE GODDAMN ROOF when they sent that legal

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-13 Thread Fae
Nicely done Liam, thanks. Cheers, Fae -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags On 14 June 2011 02:53, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Scott, the director of rights and reproductions a the NPG kindly wrote directly back to me very quickly and said

[Foundation-l] IRC office hours to discuss article feedback tool

2011-06-13 Thread Steven Walling
Hi all, I just wanted to announce that this Thursday the 16th at 18:00 UTC, there will be an IRC office hours concerning the article feedback tool which is currently in experimental partial deployment on English Wikipedia.[1] I'll be moderating mainly for Erik Möller, but hopefully we'll be

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikis and the direction hardware is taking

2011-06-13 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: James - Wiki Edit is pretty nice.  Is this a one-man project by Don Kosak? On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:14 PM,  birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote: Yes I eventually found that app.  And it is much superior to editing from the

[Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 24 – 13 June 2011

2011-06-13 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
News and notes: Wikipedians 90% male and largely altruist; 800 public policy students add 8.8 million bytes; brief news http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-06-13/News_and_notes In the news: Revere, Palin and Colbert generate activity; British Wikipedia cleanser; brief