Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia is considering going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA

2012-01-13 Thread Dominic McDevitt-Parks
On 13 January 2012 09:45, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 January 2012 14:22, Bastien Guerry b...@altern.org wrote: I still expect some of them to react in a way that will make them think twice before participating to an upload project. But maybe that's just me being

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.

2011-11-02 Thread Dominic McDevitt-Parks
On 2 November 2011 00:40, Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Indeed, you are right. This is a great addition to Commons. I am going through it now, and I have questions. In some cases, I found that there are better quality images than the ones we have. Where do they come from?

Re: [Foundation-l] Frustration with WMF = WP

2011-11-02 Thread Dominic McDevitt-Parks
While I am impressed by everyone's ability to turn this into yet another discussion of the image filter, how about if we don't do that just this once? :-) This is the blog post that the WMF published regarding the development:

Re: [Foundation-l] Frustration with WMF = WP

2011-11-02 Thread Dominic McDevitt-Parks
On 2 November 2011 13:54, Kul Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org wrote: 2) A conspiracy to push Wikipedia at the expense of the sister projects In regards to #2, there is no conspiracy here. We've been quite open about this. Yes, there is more of an emphasis on Wikipedia but it goes back to

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.

2011-10-24 Thread Dominic McDevitt-Parks
Hi all, Since it hasn't really been mentioned, I just wanted to point out that this image, never before available to the public in high resolution, was uploaded to Commons as a result of our ongoing cooperative efforts with the US National Archives (i.e., my residency). Its copyright status was