These are excellent points raised by Michael Maggs. The bit about
non-commercial licenses in particular. That has always been difficult
to explain to people who are quite happy for Wikipedia to use their
images or images of their works, but don't want people to profit
commercially from those
Hoi,
The United States is not singular in its size, its diversity, the number of
people. Arguably India, Brazil and Russia compare.
The one difference the USA has is its historic attention from the WMF in
every aspect of its operations. Arguably, the WMF has performed many of
what would be
GerardM,
Which do you think would end more language discrimination: a WMF
co-headquarters in Belgium, moving the WEF to Germany, or a Simple language
Wikipedia for the top-25 languages?
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On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Ricordisamoa, I have no preference either way. I live in a geographically
enormous country (Canada), which has a national chapter - centered so far
away from me that I'll never be in a position to participate in person at a
Hoi,
Hear, hear !!
Thanks,
GerardM
On 28 June 2015 at 12:44, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
wrote:
The WMF will become a truly global organization when a Wikimedia US
chapter is founded ;-)
W
Not quite, but it would be an important step in that direction. Work on USA
Hoi,
I did not talk about language discrimination. I talked about preference for
USA activities. That is what chapters are about.
Thanks.
GerardM
On 28 June 2015 at 14:18, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
GerardM,
Which do you think would end more language discrimination: a WMF
Wikimedia's current structure makes us vulnerable for beeing labelled as
u.s. american monopoly by jeanmarie cavada, French member of the European
Parliament:
http://jeanmariecavada.eu/ma-position-sur-le-droit-de-panorama/
Best
Rupert
On Jun 28, 2015 5:42 PM, Gerard Meijssen
hi,
now we are approaching 400 days of lila tretikov at the helm of the
wikimedia foundation, and 60 million us dollars spent, i was not able
to sign a simple wikipedia page via the mobile app. i think something
is going seriously wrong here :(
what was the use case? the european union wants to
The WMF will become a truly global organization when a Wikimedia US
chapter is founded ;-)
W
Not quite, but it would be an important step in that direction. Work on USA
projects should be done by USA Wikimedia chapters and other USA
organization, not by the Foundation.
It used to be worse in
Why not have a chapter that is physically close to the WMF in e.g. Tijuana?
On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 2:18 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
GerardM,
Which do you think would end more language discrimination: a WMF
co-headquarters in Belgium, moving the WEF to Germany, or a Simple
hi dan,
many thanks for the quick reaction! i need to make a correction as
well, i was redirected to
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Offener_Brief_an_die_Mitglieder_des_Europ%C3%A4ischen_Parlaments_zur_Erhaltung_der_Panoramafreiheit
which was opened with the android chrome browser, so
On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
It's good to see an email appeal sent to editors to translate articles,
although a direct email appeal to generally add information to the relevant
Wikipedia might be better (we don't just want translators, we also want
So as part of
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Increasing_article_coverage
, it appears that unsolicited emails have been sent out encouraging
people to translated articles into needed languages.
I am all for improving article coverage, etc, but I'm concerned about
the use of user
Hoi,
Well when he does not have a better point of view, he has hardly any
arguments at all. Just as if French students will not suffer for the lack
of a freedom of panorama. Where does it say students have money to spend on
professional pictures and where does it say they should?
Thanks,
Hi Rupert,
I was the product owner
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Team/Roles_and_responsibilities#Product_owner
for the Wikipedia app from before it launch until April last year, so I can
answer your question. Editing is supported on the native mobile apps, and
has been since their
On 28 June 2015 at 12:44, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I was the product owner
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Team/Roles_and_responsibilities#Product_owner
for the Wikipedia app from before it launch until April last year,
Correction: this was meant to read until April
A few thoughts:
1) We do not need more simple language Wikipedias. We need to make our
current Wikipedias simplier. Yes I know it is an uphill battle but we just
need more people working on it.
2) It is the editors of content who have the greater authority. Editors are
somewhat curtained by what
Hi!
I do not think language discrimination is the only possible discrimination.
I would prefer and consider it better if the international organisation
would be located next to the office of a local chapter. Then a different
perspective is possible.
Also I would like to suggest to have an WMF
Hello all,
Great news! In the mean while on 3 different Wikipedias an article has been
written about Freedom of Panorama: Croatian, Lithuanian and Esperanto.
The European languages without an article are now:
* Icelandic
* Norwegian
* Danish
* Belarusian
* Romanian
* Albanian
* Turkish
* Maltese
Il 29/06/2015 03:25, Romaine Wiki ha scritto:
Hello all,
Great news! In the mean while on 3 different Wikipedias an article has been
written about Freedom of Panorama: Croatian, Lithuanian and Esperanto.
The European languages without an article are now:
* Icelandic
* Norwegian
* Danish
*
It is also missing in se, rom and yi (all official minority languages in
Sweden ).
Norwegian is two languages, however, Norway is not a part of EU and have no
parlamentarians to change the vote.
/Jan Ainali
(skickat på språng så ursäkta min fåordighet)
On Jun 29, 2015 3:53 AM, Ricordisamoa
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