Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the French cultural authorities

2009-09-26 Thread Teofilo
and the purposes of the French government overlap, could the government be considered as being the copyright holder. L111-1: http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCode.do?idSectionTA=LEGISCTA06161633cidTexte=LEGITEXT06069414dateTexte=20090926 L131-3-1: http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr

Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the French cultural authorities

2009-09-26 Thread Teofilo
Hello GerardM, I follow you on the multilingual issue. Some of the manyfold copyright symbols I quoted in my previous message might apply to the annotating text, and let alive creative text writers have the possibility to sell their text for money. But that should not allow them to add a

[Foundation-l] LocalisationUpdate is live

2009-09-26 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It used to be that when you added to the localisations at translatewiki.net, it could take months before these localisations became part of any of the WMF projects. This is no longer the case. From now on, your localisations will become available in a much more timely manner. Typically

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board July 2009

2009-09-26 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/26 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com: Mike Godwin completed a first draft of the revised trademark policy. - Nice.  Does this mean we are closer to a world in which awesome Wikimedia swag is easy to come by... and not through cafepress? [ sorry, CP! :) ] The chapters still can't do

Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the French cultural authorities

2009-09-26 Thread Teofilo
I think our prioritory focus should the Public Domain, not least because the new (undisclosed yet) digital clause to be used on French governement GLAM websites will be experimentally tested on the website of the Claude Monet exhibition at Grand Palais in Paris from October 2010 to January 2011.

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board July 2009

2009-09-26 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/26 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: 2009/9/26 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com: Mike Godwin completed a first draft of the revised trademark policy. - Nice.  Does this mean we are closer to a world in which awesome Wikimedia swag is easy to come by... and not through cafepress? [ sorry,

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board July 2009

2009-09-26 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, Samuel Klein wrote: A friend of mine at the Library of Congress is interested in engaging local Wikipedians more in their efforts to contribute to Wikipedia. continuing a first contact with WMF from years ago It would be interesting if the LoC mentions the images which are restored by

Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the French cultural authorities

2009-09-26 Thread Teofilo
My reaction to this report is tears, because it is terrible : they use the keyword public domain only once, talking about a set of 4500 American Library of Congress pictures on Flickr (1), only to contradict it a few lines below when they talk about rights holder for the works by Ingres (2), a

Re: [Foundation-l] Priorities and opportunities

2009-09-26 Thread Samuel Klein
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: with assessment spreadsheets and standardized project briefs Do you have links for these? Of course separately from setting priorities, there's the critical need to improve our ability to execute upon those priorities.

Re: [Foundation-l] Priorities and opportunities

2009-09-26 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sep 26, 2009, at 9:32 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: Do you think we will be in a position to run a second usability project of similar scope, two years from now, entirely from within the community? Are you sure that's the best option? Playing devil's advocate, does doing something entirely

Re: [Foundation-l] Priorities and opportunities

2009-09-26 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Philippe Beaudette pbeaude...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sep 26, 2009, at 9:32 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: Do you think we will be in a position to run a second usability project of similar scope, two years from now, entirely from within the community? Are you