Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0

2014-10-28 Thread rupert THURNER
A nice move indeed, but I am wondering why you not chose the cc-by 4.0? Rupert On Oct 27, 2014 6:52 PM, Yana Welinder ywelin...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi folks, I'm happy to announce that we are re-licensing the Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0

2014-10-28 Thread Nurunnaby Hasive
Wonderful news! Great! On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 1:25 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: A nice move indeed, but I am wondering why you not chose the cc-by 4.0? Rupert On Oct 27, 2014 6:52 PM, Yana Welinder ywelin...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi folks, I'm happy to announce

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0

2014-10-28 Thread Tonmoy Khan
This indeed a great news! Thanks to WMF, especially the legal team. Cheers Ali Haidar Khan FDC Member Treasurer, Wikimedia Bangladesh On Oct 27, 2014 11:52 PM, Yana Welinder ywelin...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi folks, I'm happy to announce that we are re-licensing the Wikimedia logos on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] new Math options: phrasing the preferences

2014-10-28 Thread Physikerwelt
Hi Peter, On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Peter Krautzberger peter.krautzber...@mathjax.org wrote: While I can understand that the SVG images were orginally optimized of inline use, I do not see any principal reason why inline SVG's are better. a) all rendering issues have been due to SVGs

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0

2014-10-28 Thread Ting Chen
Really cool, great work. Thank you very much. Greetings Ting Am 10/27/2014 um 06:51 PM schrieb Yana Welinder: Hi folks, I'm happy to announce that we are re-licensing the Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/ I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0

2014-10-28 Thread Romaine Wiki
Practical question: The template: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark contains a line: (Consider using {{Copyright by Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia}} instead) Should that line be removed from the Wikimedia trademark

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0

2014-10-28 Thread Yana Welinder
Good point. That line can now be deleted from the trademark template. On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: Practical question: The template: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark contains a line: (Consider using {{Copyright by

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2014-10-28 Thread Tilman Bayer
Minutes and slides from Thursday's quarterly review meeting of the Foundation's Multimedia team are now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Multimedia/October_2014 . On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org

[Wikimedia-l] Cc-by-sa 4.0, Wikimedia logos

2014-10-28 Thread rupert THURNER
Hi yana, would you be so kind to explain why wmf did not opt for the newest commons license, cc-by-sa 4.0? Rupert On Oct 28, 2014 9:06 PM, Yana Welinder ywelin...@wikimedia.org wrote: Good point. That line can now be deleted from the trademark template. On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Romaine

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0

2014-10-28 Thread Romaine Wiki
Done! Thanks! Romaine 2014-10-28 21:05 GMT+01:00 Yana Welinder ywelin...@wikimedia.org: Good point. That line can now be deleted from the trademark template. On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: Practical question: The template:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cc-by-sa 4.0, Wikimedia logos

2014-10-28 Thread Luis Villa
Hi, Rupert- I think the movement as a whole should try to move consistently to 4.0 at roughly the same time. It is confusing to re-users to have to juggle different terms for different pieces of Wikimedia content.[1] So Foundation content will generally remain 3.0 until we make 4.0 the default

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0

2014-10-28 Thread MZMcBride
Yana Welinder wrote: I'm happy to announce that we are re-licensing the Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/ Hi. I found this blog post pretty confusing. It is not obvious to me which logos we're talking about

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Is Emerging as Trusted Internet Source for Information on Ebola

2014-10-28 Thread Bishakha Datta
The same article was just forwarded to me by a US-based academic who's been very sceptical of Wikipedia. Felt a tinge of pride. Sent her back the Open Medicine peer-reviewed Wikipedia article on dengue fever, posted to this list earlier. Congratulations, Bishakha On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:50

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0

2014-10-28 Thread Allan J. Aguilar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:51:47 -0700 Yana Welinder ywelin...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi folks, I'm happy to announce that we are re-licensing the Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0: