[Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Call for volunteers: Election Committee

2013-01-22 Thread Ting Chen
Hi Everyone, 2013 is an election year for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. As you may recall the board has three directly elected representatives on it which serve for two years. Currently those are Mindspillage, SJ and Wing. As in the past years we rely on an effective

Re: [Wikimedia-l] OTRS summaries and statistics report, 2012

2013-01-22 Thread MZMcBride
Keegan Peterzell wrote: 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Reports/2012 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS Nice. Thanks for putting this together. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarship now accepting application

2013-01-22 Thread Liam Wyatt
Glad to see the process is coming along :-) Could you please clarify the purpose of one of the mandatory questions in the form: Hong Kong is an international gourmet paradise. Please use less than 200 words to describe your favourite dish of food. Is this an English-language test? Or, is this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread David Gerard
On 22 January 2013 17:41, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org wrote: FYI, each and every edit on Commons has this text above the edit box: ...You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license. Yeah, but Commons pulls in stuff from other

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread Lodewijk
And I'm also unsure all the upload wizards have the same text? 2013/1/22 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com On 22 January 2013 17:41, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org wrote: FYI, each and every edit on Commons has this text above the edit box: ...You agree that a hyperlink or URL is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread Thomas Morton
I've always considered this poor policy on the part of Wikipedia; a sort of intellectual grab that we do so well :( I've uploaded images before by great photographers, after working to obtain their permission, and make a point of crediting them when inserting the image into the article - partly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread Matthew Roth
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: All, I have a question for you which I am sure you will enjoy discussing. It's about licencing. Wikimedia sites do not use a 'byline' on their images - for example,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 22 January 2013 16:51, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: It appears that opinion is divided on whether a hyperlink is acceptable as attribution, therefore I'm asking the experts: - Does anyone have any input on this? - Has this discussion been had before, if so,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread ???
On 22/01/2013 18:28, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 22 January 2013 16:51, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: It appears that opinion is divided on whether a hyperlink is acceptable as attribution, therefore I'm asking the experts: - Does anyone have any input on this? -

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread HaeB
2013/1/22 ??? wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk: On 22/01/2013 18:28, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 22 January 2013 16:51, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: It appears that opinion is divided on whether a hyperlink is acceptable as attribution, therefore I'm asking the experts:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread Michael Jahn
Hi, great question, Richard! Seconding Matthew's comment on WMF blog policy: At Wikimedia Deutschland we adopted the bottom notes for posts with multiple images[1]. As a general rule, we include attribution in the bylines[2]. Adding yet another aspect to sufficient CC licensing, let's not forget

Re: [Wikimedia-l] OTRS summaries and statistics report, 2012

2013-01-22 Thread phoebe ayers
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:51 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Keegan Peterzell wrote: 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Reports/2012 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS Nice. Thanks for putting this together. :-) MZMcBride +1, thanks, this is a great report! It's very cool