[Wikimedia-l] Blog post and report on Indic technical workshops published!

2020-08-07 Thread Srishti Sethi
Hello everyone, We want to share with you a blog post and a report (longer version) on a technical workshop series conducted as part of the Small wiki toolkits (SWT) initiative in June for the Indic community. The blog post summarizes the planning that went into designing the workshop series,

[Wikimedia-l] [Covid-19] An update on in-person gatherings

2020-08-07 Thread Katherine Maher
Hi all, If this were a more predictable year, Wikimedians from around the world would be together this weekend at Wikimania Bangkok 2020, in the warm hospitality of our remarkable Wikimedia ESEAP hosts. We’d be preparing for a weekend of inspiring presentations, serendipitous meetings, and

[Wikimedia-l] Afrocine: Participate in the Months of African Cinema

2020-08-07 Thread Sam Oyeyele
[Apologies for cross-posting] In so much excitement, after successful iterations of the Months of African Cinema global contest[1] for the past years, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October to November. In the past editions of the contest,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New essay on the ambiguity of NC licenses

2020-08-07 Thread Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l
We have an archive mixing different licenses now, one is Commons ranging from CC-0 to CC BY SA, and other ones are local Wikis sometimes including in their spectrum of situations many non-free files in fair use. this is proof that an archive hosting non-free files with other free-licensed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New essay on the ambiguity of NC licenses

2020-08-07 Thread Erik Moeller
On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 3:52 PM Samuel Klein wrote: > I don't think we should mix NC with free-knowledge licenses . > I do absolutely think we should maintain an archive, visible to the public > with at most a simple hoop to jump through, of material that is offered to > us in any legal way but