On 8 February 2013 10:22, David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com wrote:
It would be greatly appreciated if you would consider the Walk and
Talk Tours patented system in 1999 with regards to information signage
relating back to electronic media to obtain information in respect of
a site.
A
...without the necessity of going through unnecessary legal fees in using the
patented concept without the consent of... - Is that a copyvio?
* See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll
2013/2/8, Fae faewik+comm...@gmail.com:
On 8 February 2013 10:22, David Richfield
I don't see this as an actual patent troll: the people in question
actually use the technology that they patented for self-guided walking
tours: the tourist calls the number related to the specific site, and
hears information about it. I think they were just a bit
overoptimistic about what was
Forwarding this from the toolserver list:
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From: Silke Meyer silke.me...@wikimedia.de
Date: 8 February 2013 11:57
Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] Adding more roots
To: toolserve...@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi!
After consultation with WMF, I would like to correct
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation yesterday released the Compass
Partnership report regarding the governance of Wikimedia UK. You can find
the report
herehttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_UK_gov_review_rpt_v5.pdf
and
there is a complementary joint statement
Nicole Ebber, 08/02/2013 12:12:
Forwarding this from the toolserver list:
Thank you.
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From: Silke Meyer
After consultation with WMF, I would like to correct what I wrote the
other day about toolserver admins.
According to Erik Möller, WMF needs all
I'd like to ask your support the project I started:
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/open-licensed-format-recordings-voices-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons/
asking the subjects of Wikipedia articles to record a 10-second sample
of their speaking voice, for use on those articles.
An example script is
Andy - have you thought about putting a project page on Wikipedia and not
just hosting it on your blog ?
It might bring more traffic.
I saw your Tweet about doing this, I just..well..haven't sat down and done
it yet. And I hate my recorded voice. O_o
-Sarah
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:57 AM,
Yeah, it'd be cool to have a tool that allows the subject to record and
then make their file an ogg, or record it to ogg in a super fast way.
it's a small, but time consuming thing to record yourself, upload it (or
whatever) to your computer, and then figure out how to make it into an open
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, it'd be cool to have a tool that allows the subject to record and
then make their file an ogg, or record it to ogg in a super fast way.
it's a small, but time consuming thing to record yourself, upload it (or
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 13:57:41 +, Andy Mabbett wrote:
I'd like to ask your support the project I started:
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/open-licensed-format-recordings-voices-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons/
asking the subjects of Wikipedia articles to record a 10-second
sample
of their
On 8 February 2013 15:06, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, it'd be cool to have a tool that allows the subject to record and
then make their file an ogg, or record it to ogg in a super fast way.
it's a small, but time consuming thing to record yourself, upload it (or
On 8 February 2013 15:27, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
This sounds interesting, but what is the purpose? I happen to be a subject
of a Wikipedia article, is the idea that anybody would get a chance to hear
what accent do I have? I am not sure I would like this.
The reasons are
On 8 February 2013 14:57, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote:
Andy - have you thought about putting a project page on Wikipedia and not
just hosting it on your blog ?
Yes; I have a rewrite for that purpose, on my to-do list.
I saw your Tweet about doing this, I just..well..haven't
Hoi,
There are several tools that allow you to record pronunciations. I have
done many many in the past and, I am not the only on
Thanks,
GerardM
On 8 February 2013 16:06, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, it'd be cool to have a tool that allows the subject to record and
Okay. So I looked at this a couple of times, and couldn't come up with a
good idea for notable people to want to deliberately record and upload
with an open license a recording of their own voice - knowing that it
*will* be abused and misused and mashed. (There's little question that
this will
QRpedia is still owned by Roger Bamkin I think
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRpedia The projects code appears to be
open source.
What does this mean for long term stability? How is the site licensed?
What authority do the volunteers / cities putting these up involved
have over its functioning?
On 8 February 2013 17:09, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Okay. So I looked at this a couple of times, and couldn't come up with a
good idea for notable people to want to deliberately record and upload
with an open license a recording of their own voice - knowing that it
*will* be abused
On 8 February 2013 17:53, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:
QRpedia is still owned by Roger Bamkin I think
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRpedia The projects code appears to be
open source.
What does this mean for long term stability? How is the site licensed?
What authority do the
Even if I'm really in favor of sound content in articles, I'm not sure that a
license like the CC by SA is good for that. Do the subject are really aware of
what it means?, that their voice could be used without their consent
afterwards?
It could be a good opportunity to open a constructive
Am 08.02.2013 18:53, schrieb James Heilman:
QRpedia is still owned by Roger Bamkin I think
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRpedia The projects code appears to be
open source.
It is. You need to fiddle through it and find the right QR library which
is not included, though.
What does this mean
Hi.
As I understand it, loading remote resources on Wikimedia wikis (such as
YouTube videos or Google Analytics JavaScript) is not allowed. The basic
principle is that any remote resources must be loaded from domains that
also adhere to Wikimedia's privacy policy (such as toolserver.org) or be
Gerard,
Did not we record something sounding like merry christmas and happy new
year several years ago ? Was it uploaded ? I could not find it ;)
Flo
On 2/8/13 5:24 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
There are several tools that allow you to record pronunciations. I have
done many many in the
MZ - The last time this came up was in the context of the Jobvite listings,
and at the time I believe you directed people to the privacy policy. I
don't have the exact quote handy, but I think you said something like the
privacy policy of the site or service collecting information has to be
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Abhishek Suryawanshi
i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote:
*BTW I'd like to join this Wikipedia club pune of yours along with 3
other brazilians, one of them might be under 18 - I'm not sure. I'd like to
join and speak on its behalf please. *
You are
Hi,
Since Club Pune is now open to everyone - and especially Brazilians - I
would like to join too, since Theo tells me that Pune is the second best
city in India. I am a big fan of the Taj Mahal, so for me is the 3rd best
(behind Agra). I never went there, I cant place it on a map, but now its
D'oh. Wrong list. Apologies.
-Theo
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Abhishek Suryawanshi
i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote:
*BTW I'd like to join this Wikipedia club pune of yours along with 3
other brazilians, one
Andy Mabett wrote:
People could use AudioBoo, for example, if it had a Flickr-like way
for uploaders to open-license a recoding. I'ive reached out to them
suggesting that, with no luck yet.
The open source solution for voice recording with the largest
cross-browser and cross-platform support
What about to embed Youtube in Privacy mode?
http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=171780expand=PrivacyEnhancedMode#privacy
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:45 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
As I understand it, loading remote resources on Wikimedia wikis (such as
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