Re: [WikiEN-l] Images that are PD in their country of origin

2010-02-09 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SlimVirgin wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 17:22, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: However, that is somewhat separate from the question of images that are in the public domain _somewhere_. It is somewhat crazy that US laws dictate what public

Re: [WikiEN-l] Custom Google search engines for finding RSs for subject areas

2010-02-09 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Rajat Mukherjee raj...@google.com wrote: Gwern This is not true - we support a lot more than 20 patterns - so I will follow up to have this addressed  in the forum if you can provide a specific example where you believe patterns are not being used, we can look

Re: [WikiEN-l] Images that are PD in their country of origin

2010-02-09 Thread SlimVirgin
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:59, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'd like to point out that in fact, these images would be accepted on to Commons, because Commons respects the country of origin rule rather than the PD-US rule that more often applies on the English Wikipedia. Hi Cary, most of

Re: [WikiEN-l] Images that are PD in their country of origin

2010-02-09 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SlimVirgin wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:59, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'd like to point out that in fact, these images would be accepted on to Commons, because Commons respects the country of origin rule rather than the PD-US rule

Re: [WikiEN-l] Images that are PD in their country of origin

2010-02-09 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cary Bass wrote: SlimVirgin wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:59, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'd like to point out that in fact, these images would be accepted on to Commons, because Commons respects the country of origin rule rather

Re: [WikiEN-l] Images that are PD in their country of origin

2010-02-09 Thread SlimVirgin
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:07, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: Cary Bass wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:59, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'd like to point out that in fact, these images would be accepted on to Commons, because Commons respects the country of origin rule

Re: [WikiEN-l] Images that are PD in their country of origin

2010-02-09 Thread Durova
Yes, lack of good administrators is a big problem, but the policies that they administer would remain the same without regard to the number of administrators. A simpler formulation of the rules could ease the administrators' burdens. Alternatively, the solution is more administrators. When