Re: [Wikidata-l] [Multimedia] Commons file-topic searching and storage (was Re: Commons Categories again)

2014-09-14 Thread Thomas Douillard
You should look at the dev team plans about the query engine. Queries will be associated to a query item, and the results of the query will be cached and maintained by the Wikibase software as the datas will be modified, if I understand well. So this discussion will make sense when we will know

Re: [Wikidata-l] Commons file-topic searching and storage

2014-09-14 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Incompatible how ? The fact that some wikis allow for licenses that Commons does not allow for does NOT make them incompatible. It means that they use licenses in addition to Commons.. Technically that is no big deal at all. Thanks, GerardM On 13 September 2014 23:40, P. Blissenbach

Re: [Wikidata-l] Commons file-topic searching and storage

2014-09-14 Thread Jan Dudík
Problem is, when somebody translate article from en.wiki and copy all images, it will display even if they have incompatibile licence - and who will check it? And there would be many problems with some people which will not agree with deleting these images from articles. Soulition would be, if

Re: [Wikidata-l] Commons file-topic searching and storage

2014-09-14 Thread Joe Filceolaire
Except that the problem isn't incompatible licenses; its lack of licenses. Most pix uploaded to wikipedias have no license. They are there under fair use rationales which are specific to each use and to the laws which apply in countries using that language. These pix are not free to reuse. Each

Re: [Wikidata-l] policy toward using non-CC0 licensed external databases as reference

2014-09-14 Thread Scott MacLeod
Maxime and Wikidatans, Just as Wikipedia / MediaWiki / Wikidata continue to generate anew open Creative Commons' licensed resources legally, and interlingually, I wonder if beginning searching C.C. first - http://search.creativecommons.org/ - for external-to-MediaWiki / Wikidata databases is a

Re: [Wikidata-l] Commons file-topic searching and storage

2014-09-14 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The consequence would be that we cannot deal with these files. We cannot even know what they are about, We cannot target them for replacement by freely licensed files. Having access to them, knowing about them is different from using them. Files with a fair use rationale are categorised by

[Wikidata-l] Weekly Summary #125

2014-09-14 Thread John Lewis
Hello everyone, Here is the latest weekly summary covering all the Wikidata things over the past two weeks! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_09_13 Apologies from Lydia and myself about not producing one last week :) John Lewis

Re: [Wikidata-l] breaking changes for gadgets

2014-09-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Lydia Pintscher, 31/08/2014 14:30: We are aware of the following gadgets that will need to be adapted but those might not be all: Adapted on wikidatawiki only, that is? I don't remember if those gadgets are all wiki-specific (SimpleTransliterate in particular). Please notify any other affected

Re: [Wikidata-l] integration of VisualEditor and Wikidata

2014-09-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
David Cuenca, 12/08/2014 10:15: Actually that feature was introduced during the Wikidata meetup by User:Vlsergey :) See: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Edit_directly_from_infocard_.2F_infobox AFAIK, at the moment it is only deployed on ruwiki, but it works! Check also