[Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 39 – 26 September 2011

2011-09-27 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
Opinion essay: The global mission, the image filter and the German question http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-09-26/Opinion_essay Recent research: Top female Wikipedians, reverted newbies, link spam, social influence on admin votes, Wikipedians' weekends, WikiSym

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-27 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: Finally, the Dead Sea Scrolls[1] have copyright[2]. Courtesy of The Israel Museum. Congratulations. If the Dead Sea Scrolls were divinely inspired, like other Biblical texts, then there is an argument that the

The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 39 – 26 September 2011

2011-09-27 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
Opinion essay: The global mission, the image filter and the German question //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-09-26/Opinion_essay Recent research: Top female Wikipedians, reverted newbies, link spam, social influence on admin votes, Wikipedians' weekends, WikiSym previews

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-27 Thread Billinghurst
Is the copyright claim on the scroll or the image. I would expect the latter and they are perfectly entitled to claim copyright on the image, the issue is that in various countries it could be held true by the courts that it is in copyright, and in others it isn't. Truth in copyright

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-27 Thread emijrp
Looks like you don't know the meaning of common word. I also know how to paste cool links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_and_copyright_issues 2011/9/27 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: OMG ISRAEL IS OUT OF USA? REALLY?

Re: [Foundation-l] Three short films about Wikipedia

2011-09-27 Thread Bod Notbod
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson wikihanni...@gmail.com wrote: This year, we have prepared three short films about why the visitors should contribute to Wikipedia (roughly a minute each) that we will show continuously over the four days of the fair. But before we show

[Foundation-l] Welcoming Jon Davies as our new Chief Executive

2011-09-27 Thread Chris Keating
Dear all, Wikimedia UK is very pleased to announce that after a very thorough recruitment process we have appointed Jon Davies as our first Chief Executive, starting next Monday. Jon has extensive experience in the non-profit sector in the UK, and this will be his first Wikimedia role. Many

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-27 Thread Ryan Kaldari
As far as law outside the U.S. is concerned, the Feist decision has had more of an impact than Bridgeman (probably because it was a Supreme Court decision). Since Feist (1991), many common lawhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law countries have moved towards applying the threshold of

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing Community Fellow Jon Harald Søby

2011-09-27 Thread Siko Bouterse
Hi all, Our fellowships programhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowshipsis growing, and I'm pleased to announce Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by as our newest Community Fellow. Jon brings 6 years of experience in the Wikimedia community to his

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-27 Thread Stephen Bain
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: (Australia, however, is still decidedly sweat based). Well, we recently confirmed that computers can't have sweat on their brows. So there's some progress!

Re: [Foundation-l] Meta main page

2011-09-27 Thread とある白い猫
Oh, I was proposing something simpler than what I had on my commons userpage. Consider something like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:White_Cat/Gen v http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:White_Cat/de Translators only /care/ about the text rather than the style issues and etc. It is

Re: [Foundation-l] Three short films about Wikipedia

2011-09-27 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
Hello Bodnotbod, Thank you for your input. They are not late at all. I have worked with writing and films for about ten years now, so I do not take your comments personally. The only comment that is new is that I should leave the director's chair to someone else. If you could be more specific

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-27 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Wow, it looks like I may be wrong. Very good news from Australia! Thanks for the link. Ryan Kaldari On 9/27/11 11:57 AM, Stephen Bain wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Ryan Kaldarirkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: (Australia, however, is still decidedly sweat based). Well, we recently

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-27 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: By the common meaning of the word original, I'd say the photograph *is* original.  OTOH, under US precedent it *probably* isn't within the US legal meaning of the term. I should add that, in my US analysis, I was making the

Re: [Foundation-l] Meta main page

2011-09-27 Thread とある白い猫
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/Template/de http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/Template/en http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/Template/es Few examples of the new meta main page in its templated form which allows easier translation. Most translations are greatly outdated

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-27 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: As far as law outside the U.S. is concerned, the Feist decision has had more of an impact than Bridgeman (probably because it was a Supreme Court decision). Since Feist (1991), many common

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-27 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 20:07 -0400, Anthony wrote: UK requires originality. But it's not at all clear that a photograph of something out of copyright is unoriginal (even if that something is two dimensional). By the common meaning of the word original, I'd say the photograph *is* original.

Re: [Foundation-l] Welcoming Jon Davies as our new Chief Executive

2011-09-27 Thread Sue Gardner
On 27 September 2011 10:30, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Wikimedia UK is very pleased to announce that after a very thorough recruitment process we have appointed Jon Davies as our first Chief Executive, starting next Monday. Fabulous! Welcome to Jon, and