[Wikimedia-l] August 1: Strategy update - Preparing for Wikimania, the strategic direction, and New voices insights (#22)

Hi all — Wikimania is coming, but before we get to Montreal, we are publishing many more insights, reports, guides, and research from our work during cycle 3. There's lots of good stuff and interesting insights (did you know Spain is consistently one of the countries with the highest awareness

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sharing sad news about Bassel

My apologies. The correct address is: http://freebassel.org/ On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 7:19 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 2 August 2017 at 00:00, Katherine Maher wrote: > > > at his article [2], and at https://freebassel.org. > > > This is giving an SSL

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sharing sad news about Bassel

On 2 August 2017 at 00:00, Katherine Maher wrote: > at his article [2], and at https://freebassel.org. This is giving an SSL error ... - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

[Wikimedia-l] Sharing sad news about Bassel

Dear all, I am very deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of our fellow community member Bassel Khartabil, also known to some as Bassel Safadi. Bassel was detained on March 15, 2012 amid arrests on the one-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising. He had been missing since October

[Wikimedia-l] Trace of Soul (WLM+WLE) in Republic of Srpska

Hello everyone! I am pleased, in front of the Wikimedia Community of the Republic of Srpska, to inform you that our community received its first annual APG grant this year and we are very excited about it! :) We have already started with the initial activities - the Trace of Soul 2017 project.

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: US court declares GPL is a contract

Forwarding for those interested in intellectual property law. I'm nowhere near being an expert on this subject, but this case seems interesting for those of us who work with materials which are licensed under the GPL. Pine Original message From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

Exact replica should not be copyrighted in my opinion since they are not a "creation of the mind". That being said, the changes made by the one doing the replica can be copyrighted. In this case of the museum, I think the person(s) doing the restoration did a "creation of the mind" since they

[Wikimedia-l] Help requested for finding certain subjects in your local Wikipedia

Hi all, In the Dutch part of Belgium there exists a performing arts database, and they are donating parts of it to Wikidata. Over the past century they have collected the theatre venues and festivals where a Flemish theatre group had its première. For many locations I already found an article in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

Actually, on Commons I had photographs deleted on the ground that the depicted building is a replica of an old building which went out of copyright, but the replica is copyrighted (despite my objection). When I myself nominated a photograph on the same grounds, it was kept. I do not particularly