Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-20 Thread Avenue
? How will we know which is meant? Maybe marking auto-certainty values somehow would mitigate the latter problem, at least. Avenue On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: I am still trying to catch up with the whole discussion and to distill

Re: [Wikidata-l] Data values

2012-12-19 Thread Avenue
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Marco Fleckinger marco.fleckin...@wikipedia.at wrote: IMHO this should be part of a model. E.g. Altitudes are usually measured in metres or feet, never in km or yards. Distances have the same SI base unit but are measured also measured in km, depending of the

Re: [Wikidata-l] Database rights

2012-12-12 Thread Avenue
course. Avenue ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was Introduction and some questions on Wikidata)

2012-12-11 Thread Avenue
rights have a much wider effect, which I still think should be of concern. But that topic deserves an email of its own. Avenue ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was Introduction and some questions on Wikidata)

2012-12-11 Thread Avenue
from people who do. b) The US, at least. I did say that IANAL more than once earlier in this thread. Maybe I should make it part of my signature. Avenue ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was Introduction and some questions on Wikidata)

2012-11-30 Thread Avenue
30, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: 2012/11/30 Avenue avenu...@gmail.com Yes, but in some jurisdictions the licenses are the only things allowing lawful use of the data (at least in sizeable portions). I'm concerned that we'd put some users, and maybe

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was Introduction and some questions on Wikidata)

2012-11-16 Thread Avenue
to be copyrightable. The CC-BY-SA-3.0-unported license used on Wikipedia is silent about database rights, so databases that are not copyrighted do not trigger the BY-SA requirements of the license. So I believe Wikidata's current work on interwiki links doesn't violate CC-BY-SA. Avenue

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was Introduction and some questions on Wikidata)

2012-11-16 Thread Avenue
legal advice and there's no need to worry about licensing external data. Avenue ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l