:
Hello Mike,
Do you plan to issue a press release this year too for the Public Domain Day?
Do you plan any other initiative?
We are trying, with some success, to celebrate the PD a bit louder
this year: http://publicdomainday.org/
Thanks,
best
juan carlos
On 31/12/09 23:44, Michael
The Monday Interview: As Wikipedia celebrates 10 years as an unrivalled source
of knowledge, its founder talks to Ian Burrell:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/jimmy-wales-its-not-about-how-many-pages-its-about-how-good-they-are-2164840.html
Mike
Forwarding with permission of the sender. I'm very eager to see the UK and
Ireland participate in this if possible, but from my experience of running
Britain Loves Wikipedia I'm very aware that this needs a team of people running
it rather than just one person. So: is anyone interested in
On 30 Nov 2010, at 22:53, Fred Bauder wrote:
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/opinion/30zhuo.html
Fred
User:Fred Bauder
Unfortunately, comments are disabled/absent, which makes it rather difficult to
add my own (non-trolling) thoughts... It's well worth reading this for a
general
On 30 Nov 2010, at 23:53, George Herbert wrote:
Two, nearly all WP users use pseudonymity rather than real names, and
for most people not having their real name attached anywhere gives
them a sense of anonymous empowerment similar to the truly anonymous
trolls seen elsewhere. We see a lot
It's very surprising that rural locations are a lot better covered on Wikipedia
than city areas - what's going on here?
Mike
Begin forwarded message:
From: steve virgin st...@mediafocusuk.com
Date: 30 November 2010 23:55:39 GMT
To: 'Wikimedia UK Board mailing list' bo...@wikimedia.org.uk
I'll leave it to Tango and Andrew to provide the full story, but in a nutshell:
due to the complexities of our accounts (and hence the time demands they place
on our Treasurer), we're rather late in having the first set of them checked
over by an accountant. They're currently with the
(also including foundation-l as this isn't really a commons-specific discussion)
On 22 Nov 2010, at 21:04, Samuel Klein wrote:
A wikidata project could use semantic mediawiki from the outset, and
be seeded with data from dbpedia.
A lot of existing proposed projects would benefit from a
(also including foundation-l as this isn't really a commons-specific discussion)
On 22 Nov 2010, at 21:04, Samuel Klein wrote:
A wikidata project could use semantic mediawiki from the outset, and
be seeded with data from dbpedia.
A lot of existing proposed projects would benefit from a
On 18 Nov 2010, at 15:42, Fred Bauder wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 14:09, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 November 2010 11:30, Â wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
Any one signed up yet?
http://www.ereleases.com/pr/visibility-wikipedia-easier-43135
I could find anything
Fantastic. :-) Semantic issue: these aren't new projects, they're new language
versions of existing projects. We haven't had a new project since 2007.
Mike
On 13 Nov 2010, at 18:51, Milos Rancic wrote:
Our family has got new projects:
* Wikipedia in Gagauz: http://gag.wikipedia.org/
*
Hi all,
See the email below - it seems that the UK government is doing a big public-ish
consultation with regards cultural institutions and their funding, etc. Do you
think it is worth WMUK responding to this, and on which points?
Nick pointed out that there is a copyright element to this, but
On 6 Nov 2010, at 17:43, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 6 November 2010 17:07, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
ads there would be able
to be served in a way that is both relevant to the end-user (based on the
term being searched for)
That's a big problem. To use a somewhat clichéd example,
On 6 Nov 2010, at 20:54, MZMcBride wrote:
Liam Wyatt wrote:
Whilst I don't support or advocate for Wikimedia projects including
advertising, I would like to ask a hypothetical question. Would people's
opinions towards ads would be different if google's ads were to be
incorporated ONLY on
On 21 Oct 2010, at 20:09, geni wrote:
On 21 October 2010 14:04, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101020/04044411496/english-heritage-organization-claiming-it-holds-effective-copyright-on-any-and-all-photos-of-stonehenge.shtml
No. Apart from
On 22 Oct 2010, at 02:02, Erik Zachte wrote:
A quick update on our inflated page view stats:
Ryan's hypothesis that deployment of the new CentralNotice banner
loader had something to do with it has been confirmed.
So those extra page views were actually internally generated requests,
On 19 Oct 2010, at 18:44, Mike Dupont wrote:
I don't think we gain anything by providing a platform for Kohs campaign,
as illustrated at
http://www.mywikibiz.com/Top_10_Reasons_Not_to_Donate_to_Wikipedia
against Wikipedia.
Wow, this is very well written and interesting! please share more
On 19 Oct 2010, at 19:06, Mike Dupont wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
On 19 Oct 2010, at 18:44, Mike Dupont wrote:
I don't think we gain anything by providing a platform for Kohs campaign,
as illustrated at
http://www.mywikibiz.com
On 10 Oct 2010, at 11:33, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Despite repeated assurances at Wikimania, on lists and on strategywiki,
that the strategic plan was going to consider all Wikimedia projects as
important, now at
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Five-year_targets the
Czesc all,
On 10 Oct 2010, at 06:54, Przykuta wrote:
Hi
In pl wiki depth is very weak. We have many edits, like other bigger
Wikipedias, but Ratio is problematical (Non-Articles/Articles). We have not a
lot of non-article pages. Could you help us? Any ideas?
Hi Peter,
On 9 Oct 2010, at 11:15, Peter Damian wrote:
My apologies for the Godwinism. I am a writer, the idea of preventing
someone expressing a viewpoint is reprehensible. Disruption to the project
of building a comprehensive and reliable reference source is one thing.
That is a
On 5 Oct 2010, at 18:48, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
What is the main point of wikipedia to edit it, or to read it? Because
the readability of something like the Bulger article is very low. Making
it easier to edit with peppered refs will probably mean that more refs
get added
Hi all,
Some of you might be interested in an event that Open Plaques
(http://openplaques.org/) is organising tomorrow in London, an 'open day' to
figure out where their project is going next:
http://openplaquesopenday.eventbrite.com/
Sorry for the late notice about this.
Mike
Unfortunately, we ran out of time to talk more about the potential projects and
non-admin targets for the chapter, so those sections are particularly
abbreviated (there was a lot to discuss at this meeting...). I'd like to
encourage everyone to give input to this in particular - what
Hi Jarry,
I believe that sorting out membership renewals is on Tango's (rather long)
to-do list; hopefully he will get around to doing it sooner rather than later
(or will delegate it)...
Thanks,
Mike
On 19 Sep 2010, at 17:59, Jarry 1250 wrote:
Hey all.
I originally coughed up my £6 (the
Hi all,
The next Wikimedia UK AGM and annual conference will be on Saturday 16 April
2011 in Bristol - please save the date!
You can find more information (that which exists so far) at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Annual_Conference_2011
If you're interested in coming and want a reminder
On 13 Sep 2010, at 21:16, Lewis Cawte wrote:
On 13/09/10 21:11, Michael Peel wrote:
people to help advertise the conference
Hmm, if we designed a few banners/buttons and things, I'm sure some
people would put them on user pages and stuff, I know I would, even
though I'm not a member
On 14 Aug 2010, at 13:44, Gordon Joly wrote:
On 14/08/2010 09:55, Michael Peel wrote:
See below. This is a topic that I haven't heard much talk about in the UK
yet - do we want to do something for Wikipedia's 10th birthday in the UK?
Like the edit party suggestion!
Gordo
Thanks Gordo
On 29 Aug 2010, at 09:51, David Gerard wrote:
On 29 August 2010 02:14, Victor Vasiliev vasi...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you now that according to The Independent we have approved
Wikipedia committee members? The Independent managed to call an IP
user so. [1] May anyone contact and correct them?
On 29 Aug 2010, at 13:04, David Gerard wrote:
On 29 August 2010 12:09, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
I'm really puzzled how they managed to get the description of the Wikimedia
community so wrong, considering that talked to them on the phone about this
on Friday afternoon
Erm ... huh?
1) If you're interested in helping, and have experience/knowledge of languages,
then get involved with the committee.
2) They're getting things achieved - they're fostering the development of new
language projects, making decisions, getting the projects started, and doing
this in
Hi Botnotbod,
Thanks for the reminder - I've added WMUK's info to the page.
Thanks,
Mike
On 20 Aug 2010, at 08:30, Bod Notbod wrote:
Hi,
Stumbled across this page on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_email_management
Hardly any projects are listed thus far, but I thought
and Archives.
We are still working out a few of the details of Liam's hire, but he has now
started working on the planning, and will be in touch with you all with more
details shortly.
Thanks,
Mike
On 8 Jul 2010, at 11:48, Michael Peel wrote:
Hi all,
I've put a job advertisement below
See below. This is a topic that I haven't heard much talk about in the UK yet -
do we want to do something for Wikipedia's 10th birthday in the UK?
I'm wondering whether we could do a hack party. Essentially, book a large space
with good internet access and lots of refreshments, and have as
Hi all,
Does anyone watch University Challenge? I've heard a rumour that a round of
questions was focused on the Wikipedia puzzle globe symbols around the 26th
July 2010 - can anyone confirm or deny this?
Thanks,
Mike
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On 27 Jul 2010, at 09:15, Charles Matthews wrote:
Gwern Branwen wrote:
'British Museum pays for Wikipedia page views'
http://www.examiner.com/x-58002-Wiki-Edits-Examiner~y2010m7d26-British-Museum-pays-for-Wikipedia-page-views
I decided to ignore the whole prizes aspect of the BM
On 27 Jul 2010, at 10:13, Charles Matthews wrote:
So, [[Hoxne Hoard]] (not FA yet, might have been a contender), you'd
comb through well over 1000 edits, parcel out credit for substantive
edits, factor in photo credits, give some sort of reward for those to
were constructive on the Talk
On 23 Jun 2010, at 16:23, David Gerard wrote:
Reliance on Google for what is really an essential function for those
who aren't native English speakers is problematic because it's (a)
third-party (b) closed. Same reason we don't use reCaptcha.
I always think than not using reCaptcha is a
(Renaming the subject as we've changed topic)
On 23 Jun 2010, at 21:31, Mariano Cecowski wrote:
--- El mié 23-jun-10, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net escribió:
I always think than not using reCaptcha is a shame, as it's
a nice way to get people to proofread text in a reasonably
efficient
BBC News have just run their story on this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10312095.stm
Mike
On 15 Jun 2010, at 00:22, David Gerard wrote:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_to_loosen_controls_tonight.php
Spotted by Nihiltres.
- d.
On 15 Jun 2010, at 00:39, Risker wrote:
On 14 June 2010 19:22, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_to_loosen_controls_tonight.php
Spotted by Nihiltres.
groan
The George Bush page is not going to be part of this trial, because
On 15 Jun 2010, at 19:15, Risker wrote:
On 15 June 2010 04:54, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
From a media contact point of view: one of the first things the media want
are examples where it will be used, which is somewhat of a difficult
question to answer when a) the community
Is this something that an en.wp admin can solve, or does it need developer
intervention?
Mike
On 15 Jun 2010, at 19:54, Carl (CBM) wrote:
At the moment, logins to enwiki from nightshade.toolserver.org are
throwing up a CAPTCHA. This is easy to check by loading
Is it just me, then, that finds it easier and quicker to read top post replies
than to search through large amounts of text to find the response? Inline
posting makes sense if you're replying to an email that makes its point in the
space of a few lines, but otherwise it seems easier to me to
I like the idea, and I can see the benefit to the local organizations - having
quality T-shirts that are unique to the local area, that are both pretty and
informative, and are more worthwhile than the standard name+picture etc. It's
worth noting that this can be done without WMF approval so
Hi all,
I'm forwarding the email below as it affects Wikimedia a bit, due to the
following (extracted from Anthony Lester's Guardian article):
The Bill sets out the circumstances in which an internet service provider or
forum host should not be liable for defamatory material and sets time
On 24 May 2010, at 07:57, Erik Zachte wrote:
Revision Review is my favorite. It seems more neutral, also less 'heavy' in
connotations than Double Check.
Also Review is clearly a term for a process, unlike Revisions.
The downside is that 'Review' could be linked to an editorial review, and
On 18 May 2010, at 18:28, Andrew Gray wrote:
On 17 May 2010 18:23, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
(copied from foundation-l)
The process that will be followed for this selection can be viewed
here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/Process
I
On 15 May 2010, at 03:20, Casey Brown wrote:
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Logo stuff can be discussed on the Wikimedia blog here:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/05/13/wikipedia-in-3d/
Actually, there's now a thread on Commons for logo
Hi all,
Coinciding with the Wikimedia Fundraising Summit that is happening in Bristol
this weekend, there will be a Wikipedia Meetup happening this Saturday evening
(15 May):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bristol_1
The Summit will have attendees from the Foundation and 7
On 9 May 2010, at 17:57, Anthony wrote:
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com wrote:
I've just now removed virtually all permissions to actually do
things from the Founder flag. I even removed my ability to edit
semi-protected pages! (I've kept permissions
On 22 Apr 2010, at 14:06, Gordon Joly wrote:
On 17/04/2010 12:07, Andrew Turvey wrote:
WIKI UK LTD (WIKIMEDIA UK)
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
This message contains the following information pertaining to the
election of Directors of Wiki UK Limited (Wikimedia UK):
(1) Statement of Persons
on Saturday.
Mike
On 20 Apr 2010, at 12:56, Michael Peel wrote:
Hi all,
The Wikimedia UK AGM will also be taking place at this conference.
All are welcome - the more the merrier!
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_AGM
If you want to vote on the election and motions, then you'll need to
be a member
On 21 Apr 2010, at 16:08, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 21 April 2010 05:43, Huib! abi...@forgotten-beauty.com wrote:
Participation announcements for Wiki meet-up
I'm sure there is a Wiki meet-up every weekend around the globe,
posting
this information to this list will probably spam. People
Hi all,
The Wikimedia UK AGM will also be taking place at this conference.
All are welcome - the more the merrier!
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_AGM
If you want to vote on the election and motions, then you'll need to
be a member - but it's quick and easy to join if you haven't already:
Hi all,
The Wikimedia UK AGM will also be taking place at this conference.
All are welcome - the more the merrier!
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_AGM
If you want to vote on the election and motions, then you'll need to
be a member - but it's quick and easy to join if you haven't already:
Hi all,
Just spotted online:
http://www.transfersummit.com/programme
Conference in Oxford on 24-25 June, which will have Danese Cooper,
CTO Wikimedia speaking.
Mike
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Hi Bishakha,
Welcome! I hope that you enjoy your new role.
Could you share a little about your involvement with the Wikimedia
projects before this, either as an editor or a reader?
Thanks,
Mike Peel
On 5 Apr 2010, at 15:03, Bishakha Datta wrote:
Thanks, Michael and Ting.
Look forward to
On 2 Apr 2010, at 11:21, Charles Matthews wrote:
Carcharoth wrote:
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Samuel Klein wrote:
* interlanguage and interproject links to a set of articles
about the
same topic
On the final point, the
Hi all,
As a reminder, the next board meeting will be via Skype this evening,
at 8.30pm GMT, and will focus on the 2010 AGM / OKCon. The agenda is at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2010-03-30/Agenda
This will be the penultimate board meeting; the next will likely be
on the 13 April
It's good to see that downtime on Wikipedia is sufficiently rare
nowadays that it's a newsworthy event when it does happen:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/7514826/Wikipedia-
goes-down.html
Mike
On 24 Mar 2010, at 19:44, George Herbert wrote:
It's all over the tech blog and
Hi all,
The Collections Trust have today released 10 draft Principles for
Linked Data in the Culture Sector.
http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/digital/linkeddata
This follows from a 'summit' meeting last month that I attended
representing Wikimedia UK.
If you are interested, then I would
I don't understand this - why would this have any effect on PD works?
It only affects those that are in copyright but the author is not
known, surely?
Mike
On 19 Mar 2010, at 01:32, Gnangarra wrote:
What we could have is images that were once PD becoming copyright
violations, minor
For those wondering what First Monday is, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Monday_%28journal%29
(I haven't come across it before this...)
Mike
On 16 Mar 2010, at 11:53, Gordon Joly wrote:
FYI
Gordo
**
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/
Also see the 'content partnerships' page on the Wikimedia UK wiki
that I've put together:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cultural_partnerships/Content_partnerships
Additions are welcome.
Thanks,
Mike
On 16 Mar 2010, at 23:33, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
They are not donations they are
There seems to be a rather mixed news story written recently on Crown
Copyright and CC-BY compatibility:
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2259098/crown-
copyright-switches
8 March 2010
'Crown Copyright switches to Creative Commons
It will be replaced by a Creative Commons
Hi all,
The next board meeting will be on 16 March 2010 at 8.30pm GMT. It
will be by Skype, and will primarily focus on the 2010 AGM and the
task of hiring an office manager. The agenda is online at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2010-03-16/Agenda
Board members: please make sure your
... is apparently happening later this month, with participation from
a number of people from the UK:
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/program/amsterdam-program/
Does anyone know anything about this?
Mike
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Is the image actually too big for MediaWiki to handle, or just too
big for the maximum file upload size as currently set? Are there
limiting factors within the Mediawiki software or the image tools
that it uses that prevent rescaling of large images for online viewing?
I would love to see
For anyone in the UK (or willing to visit the UK ;-) that hasn't seen
the below, please take a look. Apologies for the cross-posting. This
event is also hosting Wikimedia UK's AGM, so it is fairly
important. ;-) Please distribute it to anyone else that you think
might be interested.
For anyone in the UK (or willing to visit the UK ;-) that hasn't seen
the below, please take a look. Apologies for the cross-posting. This
event is also hosting Wikimedia UK's AGM, so it is fairly
important. ;-) Please distribute it to anyone else that you think
might be interested.
On 3 Mar 2010, at 07:37, Charles Matthews wrote:
joseph seddon wrote:
This year *Wikimedia UK* is partnering with the Open Knowledge
Foundation in the organisation of the /2010 Open Knowledge
Conference/
(OKCon), an interdisciplinary conference that brings together
individuals from
For anyone in the UK (or willing to visit the UK ;-) that hasn't seen
the below, please take a look. Apologies for the cross-posting. This
event is also hosting Wikimedia UK's AGM, so it is fairly
important. ;-) Please distribute it to anyone else that you think
might be interested.
For anyone in the UK (or willing to visit the UK ;-) that hasn't seen
the below, please take a look. Apologies for the cross-posting. This
event is also hosting Wikimedia UK's AGM, so it is fairly
important. ;-) Please distribute it to anyone else that you think
might be interested.
Hi all,
There will be an open meeting on the 2010 AGM this Tuesday (9 March)
from 8.30pm onwards on IRC (server: irc.freenode.net, channel:
#wikimedia-uk). The meeting page is at:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2010-03-09
The main aim of the meeting is a 'working group' for the AGM to
In case you haven't seen it, this might interest some of you.
Mike
Begin forwarded message:
From: Holger Motzkau holgermotz...@web.de
Date: 20 February 2010 21:24:05 GMT
To: common...@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Commons-l] International Photoworkshop Nyköping 2010
Reply-To: Wikimedia
On 4 Mar 2010, at 19:59, Tom Holden wrote:
I think it's unlikely to be honest, though you're welcome to try.
Because they're new works and often just photographs and/or digital
works, maintaining artificial scarcity is crucial for the artists
to be able to make any money.
That's one
On 2 Mar 2010, at 01:18, MZMcBride wrote:
You know what sounds toxic? The
claim that a man is a new resident in the area and a known child
molester.
That's been in one of our articles for months and months; the only
provided
source is a dead link that's part of an advocacy site.
Hi all,
I've just been pointed towards:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Wiki-train
which I thought a few people here might be interested in. ;-)
It sounds like a fantastic idea - although problematic when it comes
to the amount of time off work. :-(
Mike
Yup. You have until 14 March to upload images for the competition...
Mike
On 28 Feb 2010, at 18:23, Gordon Joly wrote:
Last day today?
Gordo
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We've not had direct contact with the Imperial War Museum, but it is
something that I've had on the back of my mind for a while. The
question in my mind is, is there a group of people that has specific
interest in this content, and if so should this be made more of a
priority?
Mike Peel
On 24 Feb 2010, at 18:15, Risker wrote:
As an oversighter, I can review these edits, and I can tell you
that, while
some may consider it simple vandalism, the edits contained potentially
libelous information about a person or persons that is unsuitable
for public
consumption. The
Hi all,
The Wikimedia UK board has been putting together a budget for the
next year [1] and we have some money left over. We are looking for
proposals for projects/iniatives with budget requirements in the
range of £100-£3000 (GBP). These projects can be either online or
offline, but they
, Michael Peel wrote:
Hi all,
(apologies for the cross-posting and UK-specificness)
The Hunterian have just released a mini-podcast about Britain Loves
Wikipedia - you can see it at:
http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/whatson/wiki/wikipedia-at-the-
hunterian.shtml
We also have lots of events
Hi all,
We're discussing the budget at the next board meeting - this coming
Tuesday [1] - so if you want to make suggestions or comments, then
now is the time to make them.
[1] see http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2010-02-16/Agenda
Mike
On 26 Jan 2010, at 00:22, Andrew Turvey wrote:
Hi all,
(apologies for the cross-posting and UK-specificness)
The Hunterian have just released a mini-podcast about Britain Loves
Wikipedia - you can see it at:
http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/whatson/wiki/wikipedia-at-the-
hunterian.shtml
We also have lots of events coming up in the next
Hi all,
(apologies for the cross-posting and UK-specificness)
The Hunterian have just released a mini-podcast about Britain Loves
Wikipedia - you can see it at:
http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/whatson/wiki/wikipedia-at-the-
hunterian.shtml
We also have lots of events coming up in the next
Hi all,
(apologies for the cross-posting and UK-specificness)
The Hunterian have just released a mini-podcast about Britain Loves
Wikipedia - you can see it at:
http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/whatson/wiki/wikipedia-at-the-
hunterian.shtml
We also have lots of events coming up in the next
on Commons is that we do not accept such
images.
-- Rama
On 09/02/2010, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
On 8 Feb 2010, at 23:05, Ken Arromdee wrote:
This is also a particular problem with pictures of living people,
since we've
been told that since it's *possible* to take another
:
Maybe there is nothing preventing you from uploading from UK, but
the US copyright law prevents the WMF from accepting your files, no?
Eusebius
Michael Peel a écrit :
That's a valid point, but I'm coming at it from different
direction: works that are public domain in the country
On 8 Feb 2010, at 23:05, Ken Arromdee wrote:
This is also a particular problem with pictures of living people,
since we've
been told that since it's *possible* to take another picture of a
living
person, all non-free images of living people are prohibited. The
official
way of
Yes, it's rather confusing... ;-) Perhaps someone subscribed to both
lists could summarize what this conversation is about, and what has
come out of it so far?
Mike
On 8 Feb 2010, at 20:39, bawolff wrote:
In response to all the category intersection/flattening stuff
It's amazing how
On 8 Feb 2010, at 23:05, Ken Arromdee wrote:
This is also a particular problem with pictures of living people,
since we've
been told that since it's *possible* to take another picture of a
living
person, all non-free images of living people are prohibited. The
official
way of
On 2 Feb 2010, at 16:23, Gordon Joly wrote:
I will give some thought and perhaps a bit more planning when I next
visit a museum (V A or one of the others). This year's competition
seems to require a little more thought and planning, and like it
says in
the blurb, quality rather quantity
Great to hear this is happening - wish I could be there, but London's
a bit far for a Wednesday eve...
I've added it to the events list on the WMUK website:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Upcoming_events
Hope it goes well!
Mike
On 2 Feb 2010, at 16:18, Gordon Joly wrote:
On 15/01/2010 10:25,
Thanks David and Geni for replying to this. I found Geni's email
somewhat perplexing, so I've commented on it below. In general, I
think the question is whether we agree with the overall stance,
rather than the specific details of what would happen if it were put
in place exactly as it is
See below. Is it worth us signing this as an organization? Note that
both Asociación Civil Wikimedia Argentina and Wikimedia Nederland
have already.
Mike
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From: shi zhao shiz...@gmail.com
Date: 26 January 2010 12:29:44 GMT
To: Communications Committee
Hi Gordo,
It was good to meet you today - even sans hat. ;-)
Today I have uploaded two couplets to to the wiki:
http://britainloveswikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
The pair first via a mobile phone and the second pair at home.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loopzilla/4319060815/
Hi all,
Hopefully the last cool thing for today: just discovered the
following thanks to a tweet from @jwyg (Jonathan Gray of the Open
knowledge Foundation)
http://www.futureeverything.org/news/opendata1
We were funded in November 2009 by the Manchester Innovation
Investment Fund* to work
post about this?
I've started a page at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/
Geograph_images
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