Re: [WikiEN-l] What was our youngest admin again?

2009-07-15 Thread Alex Sawczynec
Yep, that's the one. Same person I was thinking of. I don't think they've been active for a while, though. - GlassCobra On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Biblio wrote: > From a check of the user I have in mind, they became an admin at 11 and a > crat at 12. > > biblio > > ___

Re: [WikiEN-l] What was our youngest admin again?

2009-07-15 Thread Biblio
>From a check of the user I have in mind, they became an admin at 11 and a crat >at 12. biblio --- On Wed, 7/15/09, Alex Sawczynec wrote: From: Alex Sawczynec Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] What was our youngest admin again? To: "English Wikipedia" Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 4:53 PM Hmm, I wa

Re: [WikiEN-l] What was our youngest admin again?

2009-07-15 Thread Alex Sawczynec
Hmm, I was fairly sure the youngest admin/crat was the same person; I thought I remembered hearing that they were 12 when adminned, and then 13 when made crat. All these figures seem to be in about the same range, though. - GlassCobra ___ WikiEN-l mailin

Re: [WikiEN-l] What was our youngest admin again?

2009-07-15 Thread Biblio
Our youngest crat, if I'm not mistaken, was 12 years old. I'm not sure how young our youngest admin was, but 10 seems to ring a bell. It wasn't the same two people, I know that for sure. biblio --- On Wed, 7/15/09, Thomas Dalton wrote: From: Thomas Dalton Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] What was our

Re: [WikiEN-l] What was our youngest admin again?

2009-07-15 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/7/16 David Gerard : > http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/hey-kid-support-your-local-wiki/ If memory serves, our youngest admin was 10 and our youngest crat 14 (quite possibly the same person). ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.or

[WikiEN-l] What was our youngest admin again?

2009-07-15 Thread David Gerard
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/hey-kid-support-your-local-wiki/ - d. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Copyright question

2009-07-15 Thread Ray Saintonge
Carcharoth wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Mathias > Schindler wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 3, 2007 at 9:22 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> >>> And then presumably we should ask the National Portrait Gallery about >>> their claimed copyright on hundreds of years old pictures. [*] >>> >>> >>

Re: [WikiEN-l] Copyright question

2009-07-15 Thread Charles Matthews
Sage Ross wrote: > Since this is a UK issue, though, maybe our inflammatory rhetoric > should use the tropes of imperialism. > I can remember it well, circa 1909: the world map was one big [[paint by number]], and all you needed was enough pink. (Shades of Terry Pratchett.) Now it is all pots

Re: [WikiEN-l] Copyright question

2009-07-15 Thread Sage Ross
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Carcharoth wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Jussi-Ville > Heiskanen wrote: >> Carcharoth wrote: >>> >>> Not everyone has noble thoughts about free culture and freeing public >>> domain material, running through their minds all the time. >> >> I hope you wil

Re: [WikiEN-l] Copyright question

2009-07-15 Thread Carcharoth
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:07 PM, FT2 wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Carcharoth > wrote: > >> Agreed. Ironically, if the NPG *had* done photographs of the portraits >> in their gallery settings, including the 3D frames and with lighting >> and angle considerations, and there had been a d

Re: [WikiEN-l] Copyright question

2009-07-15 Thread FT2
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Carcharoth wrote: > Agreed. Ironically, if the NPG *had* done photographs of the portraits > in their gallery settings, including the 3D frames and with lighting > and angle considerations, and there had been a developed 'style' of > how to frame the photographs of

Re: [WikiEN-l] Copyright question

2009-07-15 Thread Carcharoth
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Carcharoth wrote: >> >> Not everyone has noble thoughts about free culture and freeing public >> domain material, running through their minds all the time. > > I hope you will forgive me. > > I know that is likely to be a "brain fart"

Re: [WikiEN-l] Copyright question

2009-07-15 Thread Carcharoth
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Carcharoth wrote: >> >> Remember that  the number of (highly skilled) staff required to >> operate that sort of process may not show up on the NPG payroll, as >> they may contract that sort of work out to others. >> > Granted without a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Copyright question

2009-07-15 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Carcharoth wrote: > > Not everyone has noble thoughts about free culture and freeing public > domain material, running through their minds all the time. > > I hope you will forgive me. I know that is likely to be a "brain fart" of the type that I personally suffer from more than most, but I di

Re: [WikiEN-l] Copyright question

2009-07-15 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Carcharoth wrote: > > Remember that the number of (highly skilled) staff required to > operate that sort of process may not show up on the NPG payroll, as > they may contract that sort of work out to others. > Granted without a question. But that just begs the question. If they are claiming a "

Re: [WikiEN-l] Copyright question

2009-07-15 Thread Carcharoth
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > FT2 wrote: >> I just got curious and read up on Bridgeman vs. Corel. To my complete >> surprise, though heard in the US, it cites UK precedent (Privy Council, >> House of Lords) in forming its opinion -- it is /not/ purely a case based

Re: [WikiEN-l] Copyright question

2009-07-15 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
FT2 wrote: > I just got curious and read up on Bridgeman vs. Corel. To my complete > surprise, though heard in the US, it cites UK precedent (Privy Council, > House of Lords) in forming its opinion -- it is /not/ purely a case based > upon US law. > > It turns out the case was heard under UK law (!

Re: [WikiEN-l] Copyright question

2009-07-15 Thread Carcharoth
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Mathias Schindler wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2007 at 9:22 AM, David Gerard wrote: > >> And then presumably we should ask the National Portrait Gallery about >> their claimed copyright on hundreds of years old pictures. [*] >> >> >> [*] hint: the NPG stopped sending us

Re: [WikiEN-l] Copyright question

2009-07-15 Thread FT2
I just got curious and read up on Bridgeman vs. Corel. To my complete surprise, though heard in the US, it cites UK precedent (Privy Council, House of Lords) in forming its opinion -- it is /not/ purely a case based upon US law. It turns out the case was heard under UK law (!). It cites as authori