Validly licenced images of this building and thousands of others are
routinely deleted due to Wikimedia Commons' 'FoP' policy. Clearly this
damages our educational mission and impacts many projects. One
proposed remedy is a tweak to the policy on the lines of that arising
from the National
Am 13.03.2011 13:01, schrieb Peter Carney:
Validly licenced images of this building and thousands of others are
routinely deleted due to Wikimedia Commons' 'FoP' policy. Clearly this
damages our educational mission and impacts many projects. One
proposed remedy is a tweak to the policy on the
H.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/opinion/13rubin.html?_r=1emc=tnttntemail
1=y
M
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On 13 March 2011 15:30, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13 March 2011 12:06, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote:
The upside is, that we won't get sued by copyright holders, I guess.
Actually, the upside is that our reusers won't get sued by copyright
holders. We can claim
Hoi,
Who is going to reach out and ask for some photos that are giving to us
under a free license. Moaning does not help.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 13 March 2011 18:23, Hans A. Rosbach hans.a.rosb...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13 March 2011 15:30, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13
Given that the only Wikipedia in existence is the English Wikipedia,
that
is.
Hans Rosbach
I am not sure what you mean by this statement. Could you please explain?
Cheers
Yaroslav
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On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:26:04 +0100, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
Who is going to reach out and ask for some photos that are giving to us
under a free license. Moaning does not help.
Thanks,
GerardM
I think in this specific case we are not talking about
Hoi,
I know, but buildings like the Burj al Arab are icons for their country,
asking the person or organisation who can provide us with a license is a way
to go. When we publicise that fact, it shows our gratitude and the silliness
of FOP.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 13 March 2011 18:58, Yaroslav M.
On 13 March 2011 18:55, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
Given that the only Wikipedia in existence is the English Wikipedia,
that
is.
Hans Rosbach
I am not sure what you mean by this statement. Could you please explain?
The English Wikipedia has a fair use policy, I
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:25:32 +0100, Hans A. Rosbach
hans.a.rosb...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13 March 2011 18:55, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
Given that the only Wikipedia in existence is the English Wikipedia,
that
is.
Hans Rosbach
I am not sure what you mean by this
German Wikipedia is accepting Freedom of Panorama for all countries,
and this is the right way to handle the problem.
WMF board should decide not to oppose the results of a desirable
Commons poll that all pictures of buildings (which are free in the US)
should be accepted (if the majority
On 3/13/11, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
From what I know, only the Spanish Wikipedia does not recognize fair-use
images, and the German Wikipedia has a very strict policy which makes the
usage of fair-use tricky. All other Wikipedias allow for fair-use. I am
absolutely sure
Fair use is not allowed on the Danish Wikipedia.
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On 13 March 2011 18:25, Hans A. Rosbach hans.a.rosb...@gmail.com wrote:
The English Wikipedia has a fair use policy, I know of no other Wikipedia
that has one. The statement We can claim fair use when using images like
that on
Wikipedia is correct for English Wikipedia, but not for the other
On 13 March 2011 20:02, Klaus Graf klausg...@googlemail.com wrote:
German Wikipedia is accepting Freedom of Panorama for all countries,
and this is the right way to handle the problem.
WMF board should decide not to oppose the results of a desirable
Commons poll that all pictures of buildings
On 13 March 2011 22:14, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13 March 2011 18:25, Hans A. Rosbach hans.a.rosb...@gmail.com wrote:
The English Wikipedia has a fair use policy, I know of no other
Wikipedia
that has one. The statement We can claim fair use when using images like
I regret to inform that there is indeed an article on Zick Rubin on
Wikia, like Zick Rubin writes: I was alarmed to find the following
item, from a Wikia.com site on psychology
(http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Zick_Rubin).
There is life beyond Wikipedia, no matter how difficult it is for
NHK is apparently reporting 9 ft. tsunami heading for Shinchicho, Fukushima
Prefecture, from what I'm reading in the stewards channel. If you are in the
potential target area, please be safe.
-Dan
(crossposting to multiple lists)
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A discussion was started some time ago to discuss when it's appropriate to
use global banners. There was fairly clear consensus from the people who
chose to participate, in my view. Does this need wider discussion before
being adopted or can it be put into place now?
I presume you are raising this point now in because of the recent global
banner referring people to the March 11 Update on Strategy Wiki signed by
Sue - http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/March_2011_Update
Unless I'm mistaken that banner was *only* displayed to logged-in editors
however this RfC
Liam Wyatt wrote:
I presume you are raising this point now in because of the recent global
banner referring people to the March 11 Update on Strategy Wiki signed by
Sue - http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/March_2011_Update
Unless I'm mistaken that banner was only displayed to logged-in
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