Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Falcorian
-PhDs-elitism seems misplaced (and worrying) based on a few articles I compared. --Falcorian ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the National Portrait Gallery ...

2009-07-11 Thread Falcorian
Why are these images on Commons? According to [[Commons:Licensing]]: Wikimedia Commons accepts only media [...] that are in the public domain in at least the United States and in the source country of the work. Is it because they are potentially PD in the UK, but it's unclear? --Falcorian

Re: [Foundation-l] No default codec for video and audio in HTML5

2009-07-03 Thread Falcorian
It's not free as it is patent encumbered, see [[H.264#Patent_licensing]]. --Falcorian On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Mike.lifeguard mikelifegu...@fastmail.fmwrote: Purely out of ignorance, why do we like ogg, but not H264? Or is it not that we don't /like/ it, but rather we simply don't

Re: [Foundation-l] Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship

2009-06-20 Thread Falcorian
So the bot just has to run at human speeds so it does not get banned, it still won't get tired or make unpredictable mistakes. And you can run it from different IPs to parallelize. --Falcorian On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: Not likely. I've been banned

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Attribution and Relicensing

2009-01-21 Thread Falcorian
to use the export function). I actually have such a script written in python already, and it would be trivial for others to wirite similar ones. I suppoose my point is that reusing content from other Wikis is easy if Import is turned back on (as you keep full edit histories). --Falcorian