Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA

2014-02-28 Thread Delirium
On 2/28/14, 9:18 AM, David Gerard wrote: On 28 February 2014 01:23, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 February 2014 22:03, Galileo Vidoni gali...@gmail.com wrote: And we remain convinced that there is space for a way more prudent implementation of URAA that prevents deleting educational

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA

2014-02-28 Thread Yann Forget
2014-02-28 7:00 GMT+05:30 geni geni...@gmail.com: On 27 February 2014 22:56, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: This is the essential point of the problem: * Commons has a long-running attitude of absolute copyright paranoia, so that no reuser will ever be put in legal danger. This

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA

2014-02-28 Thread Jane Darnell
This would be the more concise open letter that I think all projects could support, no? Sent from my iPad On Feb 28, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-02-28 7:00 GMT+05:30 geni geni...@gmail.com: Now if someone could get the US to follow the law of the shorter

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA

2014-02-28 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: This would be the more concise open letter that I think all projects could support, no? Yes, this would be helpful. It's in everyone's interest for the US to adopt the rule of the shorter term. And the current Register

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA

2014-02-28 Thread David Gerard
On 28 February 2014 08:27, Delirium delir...@hackish.org wrote: But the other Wikimedia projects are *also* supposed to share that goal: of producing a Free-as-in-freedom encyclopedia whose contents can be safely reused and adapted by a wide range of other people and organizations, who should

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF is hiring a Program Evaluation Community Coordinator

2014-02-28 Thread Jaime Anstee
Hello again, I received an offlist reply that some examples of the work the program evaluation team has been involved in would be helpful. Here are links to some of the recent reportshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PE%26D_Reports on the initial coordinated program evaluation worked we've

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA

2014-02-28 Thread geni
On 28 February 2014 08:18, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: This supports what I noted: Commons increasingly just can't be relied upon as a repository for the other Wikimedia projects. Given the general failure of such projects to file exemption doctrine policies they wouldn't be able

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA

2014-02-28 Thread David Gerard
On 28 February 2014 16:05, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 February 2014 08:18, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: This supports what I noted: Commons increasingly just can't be relied upon as a repository for the other Wikimedia projects. Given the general failure of such projects to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA

2014-02-28 Thread geni
On 28 February 2014 12:43, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: You're justifying the observed, serious problems with current actions by saying but they should work in theory! No. Its more that they are features rather than problems. There have always been images hosted locally that

[Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Wikipedistes documentary in Catalan TV

2014-02-28 Thread Quim Gil
(Stepping out of my WMF tech role, wearing my ca.wiki volunteering hat.) This Sunday the program 30 minuts of TV3 (top TV channel in Catalan) will broadcast a documentary about Wikipedistes. Yes, it has a small audience compared to US prime time, but in terms of Catalan audience you probably

[Wikimedia-l] Call for Individual Engagement Grant proposals and committee members

2014-02-28 Thread Siko Bouterse
Hi all, The Wikimedia Foundation and the Individual Engagement Grants Committee invite you to submit and review proposals for community-led experiments to improve Wikimedia! Individual Engagement Grants support individuals and small teams to organize projects for 6 months. You can get funding to

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Call for Individual Engagement Grant proposals and committee members

2014-02-28 Thread Siko Bouterse
Hi all, The Wikimedia Foundation and the Individual Engagement Grants Committee invite you to submit and review proposals for community-led experiments to improve Wikimedia! Individual Engagement Grants support individuals and small teams to organize projects for 6 months. You can get funding to

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] (WMF Board blog post) Board service: Every board needs a bit of maintenance

2014-02-28 Thread Jay Walsh
(This is the second in a series of monthly blog posts by the members of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. This month's post is by Board member Alice Wiegand on the topic of Board governance, and is available in English, Deutsch, EspaƱol, and Indonesian.) From:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter on open letters (Was: Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA)

2014-02-28 Thread Dennis Pierri
The servers are still in the US, has anybody proposed a global effort? Will Wikimedia move the servers to EU in case this is accepted? On 28/02/2014, at 03:19, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: This is being done at least for EU, see consultation for which there is time till

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter on open letters (Was: Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA)

2014-02-28 Thread geni
On 28 February 2014 06:41, Dennis Pierri dennis6...@gmail.com wrote: It would be nice if all of the chapters send to their governments a petition to allow a global standardized use of media just for wikimedia projects, it is a big problem that every country has different laws on copyright and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter on open letters (Was: Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA)

2014-02-28 Thread geni
On 28 February 2014 21:49, Dennis Pierri dennis6...@gmail.com wrote: The servers are still in the US, has anybody proposed a global effort? Will Wikimedia move the servers to EU in case this is accepted? No. There is quite a bit of stuff on Wikimedia severs that is in breach of criminal law

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter on open letters (Was: Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA)

2014-02-28 Thread Dennis Pierri
Thanks for your reply :) On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 5:37 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 February 2014 21:49, Dennis Pierri dennis6...@gmail.com wrote: The servers are still in the US, has anybody proposed a global effort? Will Wikimedia move the servers to EU in case this is

[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to comment on Terms of use amendment

2014-02-28 Thread Dennis Pierri
Hello, I want to invite anyone who wants to join the discussion on the Terms of use amendment about paid editing, you may read what it is about at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Paid_contributions_amendment , you are invited to do so in any language you want. -- Dennis Pierri