Re: [Wikimedia-l] Geohack

2015-07-22 Thread geni
and Ceres is going to become an issue Do you have any long term plans with regards to wikisky? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Future of Wikipedia

2015-07-14 Thread geni
(there doesn't seem to be a solid history of calshot castle anywhere). They will not have the same love that is required to edit Wikipedia and write quality articles. And it makes me sad. I think there will be other motivations. -- geni

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS

2015-06-14 Thread geni
a government with active blocking measures. With HTTP traffic governments and ISPs can (and did) block individual pages that they don't like. Someone has to be fired for this. That would seem to be something of an over reaction even if you disagree with the decision. -- geni

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS

2015-06-13 Thread geni
On 12 June 2015 at 22:08, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent news! So how are we dealing with the Iran and China issue? Well the introduction appears to have been timed for one of those periods where we are completely blocked in china anyway. -- geni

Re: [Wikimedia-l] My article on Wikipedia Zero and Net Neutrality, just out today at Reason.com

2015-04-09 Thread geni
On 9 April 2015 at 00:51, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: http://reason.com/archives/2015/04/08/nothing-but-net --Mike I'm not convinced you are helping your case with your choice of venue. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing: The Wikipedia Prize!

2015-03-30 Thread geni
. I don't see any legal issues. Just rather boring thats all. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Adding your own works as sources possible conflict of interests

2015-03-21 Thread geni
where you can ask such a question or alternatively it has its own mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Questions about GLAM projects

2015-03-16 Thread geni
in Latin language? The original British museum project produced some Latin material. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA

2015-03-11 Thread geni
On 11 March 2015 at 08:37, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, The fact that law suits like this actually happen is a wonderful improvement in and of itself. Our aim is to freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Free has many meaning, one of them is free to share without

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Become a Digital object identifier (DOI) registarnt

2015-01-21 Thread geni
responsibility to offer really permanent links. Mediaviewer does not in fact offer a permanent link. See: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Media_Viewer/About#Non_predominance_of_links -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF has lost its path

2015-01-20 Thread geni
and that is the way I'm using it). -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF has lost its path

2015-01-20 Thread geni
costs (falsely accusing someone of running a botnet is libel). Which one do you think it is going to do? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF has lost its path

2015-01-20 Thread geni
position and partly because in most cases it is an extension of being anti-english wikipedia and that is frankly even less fixable. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-15 Thread geni
for wikidata to do so. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-14 Thread geni
heard of the likes of long cross pennies let alone individual coin mintings (the exception presumably being ones notable enough to have Wikipedia articles). It does of course know a fair bit about bitcoin. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why WMF should reconsider the 3-month gender gap project-related decision

2015-01-08 Thread geni
of late so I don't think there are significant programs to recruit anyone. (Think professional STEM fields.) I'm a chemist you insensitive clod. Depending on what you are doing it can be dirty or dangerous. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-15 Thread geni
On 14 December 2014 at 12:09, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: geni, 14/12/2014 09:13: if we can turn the chapters into respected points of contact which GLAMs Is there any evidence to think they aren't? Not in the way that I mean. WMUK is a contact for wikipedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-15 Thread geni
via Commons? Is that path currently the least painful? The reason you go via wikipedia is that they are the project with the missing images. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-14 Thread geni
On 13 December 2014 at 02:48, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: I felt kind of meh about the previous thread, so I'm forking it. geni wrote: 2)Large number of semi automated deletion notices. This is going to happen whatever you do unless you ban all uploads from people who aren't

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons copyright extremism

2014-12-14 Thread geni
does this in the real world, its a Commons fantasy. I don't know about books but Private eye (circulation 200K) has used a commons image at least once. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-13 Thread geni
for pirates and infringers. Just ran a search on India Against Corruption on the copyright queue. Nothing. Can only assume any emails were sent to the wrong place -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons copyright extremism

2014-12-12 Thread geni
)Some commons admins are behaving problematically. Yes but I'm not sure what to do about that. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons copyright extremism

2014-12-12 Thread geni
them (although if people are going to start hauling phase one cameras around I can only assume that future wikimanias will need to feature weight training gyms and physical therapists). -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons copyright extremism

2014-12-11 Thread geni
On 11 December 2014 at 17:54, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: but fop trumps all else when you are outside Not under any legal system I've looked into. Even UK law isn't that liberal. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons copyright extremism

2014-12-11 Thread geni
On 11 December 2014 at 18:04, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Geni You wouldn't be talking about the Skyy Spirits case would you? http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/225_f3d_1068.htm This case is not akin to that case in any way, shape or form. That issue was referring

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-12-02 Thread geni
On 2 December 2014 at 06:53, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: All -- we will not have a pop-up banner. And how exactly would you describe this then? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oversized_donation_notice.png -- geni

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF-community disputes about deployments

2014-08-26 Thread geni
you thought we should pay attention to their opinion? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF-community disputes about deployments

2014-08-26 Thread geni
Wikipedia's RFC). You want en to stick a link in sitenotice and up the numbers? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Flogging dead horses (was Re: Superprotect user right, Coming to a wiki near you)

2014-08-17 Thread geni
and 500+ German wikipedians: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Superschutz -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering community team! (brainstorming)

2014-08-07 Thread geni
. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rarest records

2014-08-04 Thread geni
floppy discs. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Effective censorship of Wikipedia by Google

2014-08-04 Thread geni
profile. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unacceptable -- CheckUser abuse gone uninvestigated

2014-08-02 Thread geni
. If Russavia has a problem with this he is free not to use sockpupets on the English Wikipedia. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unacceptable -- CheckUser abuse gone uninvestigated

2014-08-02 Thread geni
On 2 August 2014 09:17, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: I'm guessing you mean June 2014, as the only earlier investigation was April 2013, which was a royal mess. No. The April 2013 check was extended beyond en. No reason not to extend it to commons. -- geni

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [tangential] What happens when digital cities are abandoned?

2014-07-14 Thread geni
is however far better documented than even fairly recent meatspace stuff. For example there a canals where we have no records of them for periods lasting decades. More commonly we have the stuff published at the yearly shareholder's meeting at little else. -- geni

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community RfCs about MediaViewer

2014-07-10 Thread geni
. The opposition to flow is already starting to dig in. While I'd hope the Visual editor mess isn't held against us there is the issue that a pattern is starting to emerge. The WMF probably can't afford to lose another public facing project to English Wikipedia intransigence. -- geni

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lets delete everything from commons (was The tragedy of Commons)

2014-06-23 Thread geni
all we need is an Israeli citizen to actual ask them. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lets delete everything from commons (was The tragedy of Commons)

2014-06-23 Thread geni
On 23 June 2014 10:03, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote: Hi Geni, I wonder when was the last time you, or any other person who responded till now requested his government to make a public statement - in any issue, not only related to this issue, and the government so quickly done

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lets delete everything from commons (was The tragedy of Commons)

2014-06-23 Thread geni
On 23 June 2014 11:41, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, The Israeli government is clear in that they claim no copyright. No they aren't. How can you argue and from an US legal point of view and insist that another government is to claim copyright in order to give a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lets delete everything from commons (was The tragedy of Commons)

2014-06-23 Thread geni
to the copyright. Nothing in the letter renounces copyrights held outside Israel. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lets delete everything from commons (was The tragedy of Commons)

2014-06-22 Thread geni
within Israel. Which we already know. What we need is a statement that says that they regard the copyright expiration on government works (private works are a secondary problem) to be global. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The tragedy of Commons

2014-06-18 Thread geni
. Sure if you want the severs to be confiscated within a week. No 1st amendment outside the US. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let Commons do what it knows best and use Wikidata for it and the rest

2014-06-17 Thread geni
. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please be considerate of everyone's time.

2014-06-16 Thread geni
. Original details at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidentsoldid=305732814#Enough_is_enough -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons and OCILLA

2014-06-08 Thread geni
On 8 June 2014 12:21, matanya mata...@foss.co.il wrote: Hello, Commons licensing policy determines media should be free in source country and in US. I want to propose We change the policy to be: free in source country only, and to cope with US laws where the servers are hosted found a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sport photo

2014-06-06 Thread geni
snorkelling[2] 3. Cheese rolling[3] Cheese rolling is tricky because it only happens once a year and is legally borderline. What I'd like to see is more woman's sport. I'd put good odds that WMUK could get someone into the woman's FA cup final for example. -- geni

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014

2014-06-03 Thread geni
and a Tamron 150-600mm for that price. (incidentally the macro lens could be used to get a better version of this pic https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Domitianus_II_obverse_ashmolean.JPG I don't have anything long enough) -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About Wikipedia medical entries

2014-05-27 Thread geni
. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Participating on Wikipediocracy

2014-05-24 Thread geni
are suggesting that our new ED can't handle robust criticism but I personally prefer to trust the judgment of the board and other involved parties. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Child Protection Policy

2014-05-23 Thread geni
questions aren't really the purpose of this mailing list. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Participating on Wikipediocracy

2014-05-23 Thread geni
is hoping he just keeps his mouth shut. :P So not an editor? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Universities

2014-05-06 Thread geni
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Student_assignment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_noticeboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Historical_page_for_school_and_university_projects -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF April 2014 Metrics Activities Meeting: Thursday, May 1, 18:00 UTC

2014-05-02 Thread geni
/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil

2014-04-24 Thread geni
wondering if they should make certain things public. Then deciding that Rio de Janeiro is preferable to Moscow. Eh its not as if ABIN had a great record of obeying the previous set of laws. geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How Wikimedia could help languages to survive

2014-04-20 Thread geni
, as well. Err they are about to have a referendum on independence -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How Wikimedia could help languages to survive

2014-04-20 Thread geni
. While Westminister may not be overly concerned with regards to Gaelic we can't predict how an independent Holyrood would react. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] COI editing by WMF staff

2014-04-17 Thread geni
of that level of meta policy. You are trying to write and drama generator but not one people have time for. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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

2014-03-02 Thread geni
the *.wikipedia.org sites look nice in the short term, even if nobody external can reuse the content. You're seriously characterising the present dispute as this? Its a pretty accurate description. What do you think the law says? -- geni ___ Wikimedia

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

2014-03-02 Thread geni
, but this does not excuse the attitude of Commons to the Wikimedia community. You are aware that most commons bods are active on other projects? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

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

2014-03-02 Thread geni
; their intransigence up to now is *why* Commons appears to behave like damage. Because you and various other members of the project seem to view insisting on free content as damaging. Fundamentally there isn't much that can be done about. -- geni

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

2014-03-02 Thread geni
On 2 March 2014 22:20, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 March 2014 13:51, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: Its a pretty accurate description. What do you think the law says? It's possible, if you want people and organisations to stop their moves against you, that snideness and word

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

2014-03-01 Thread geni
On 1 March 2014 19:58, ??? wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: On 28/02/2014 01:23, geni wrote: We could do that but it pretty much removes commons only advantage over say imgur or flickr. We want the images on commons to be free. Not simply stuff no one has got around to complaining about

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

2014-03-01 Thread geni
On 1 March 2014 23:59, ??? wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: On 01/03/2014 23:06, geni wrote: On 1 March 2014 19:58, ??? wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: You have no guarantee that the account that the images were scraped from held the copyright in the first place, and as such you

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

2014-02-28 Thread geni
to host the content either per the Resolution:Licensing policy they wouldn't be able to host the images either. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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

2014-02-28 Thread geni
) the Commons community has already gone way past the limits *the WMF has explicitly said are fully OK*. The WMF have said no such thing. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

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

2014-02-28 Thread geni
only licences aren't helpful. Finding out their position on goverment works with expired copyrights is somewhat more useful. Brits did it back in 2005: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-May/022055.html -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l

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

2014-02-28 Thread geni
in parts of the EU. Nothing special just the usual mix of blasphemy, breach of court orders, insulting foreign heads of state and extreme pornography. There may be some other stuff but there is a limit to the number of legal systems I can keep track of. -- geni

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

2014-02-26 Thread geni
of Argentina going for a rather extreme form of personality rights) I'd also advise you against hosting locally. Under Article 72 bis (d) copyright violations can carry a prison sentence. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

2014-02-26 Thread geni
On 26 February 2014 22:39, Galileo Vidoni gali...@gmail.com wrote: [Sorry for this excurse] Dear Geni, the 20 years indeed come from article 24 of law 11 723. The 25 years come from the Berne Convention. But that merely established a minimum under international law. Unless you have some

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ukraine -- is everyone safe?

2014-02-20 Thread geni
. Being safe means not challenging the government or being part of the police force. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK slide scanner

2014-02-19 Thread geni
handling be limited to professionals or their internal volunteers only Thirdly the copyright of slides is often messy. If the original photographer has died and they didn't mention copyright in their will any copyrights could well be held by multiple people. -- geni

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?

2014-01-16 Thread geni
-coder out there but people have lost interest. Theora is good enough for the no compromise on freedom mob and development interest is moving towards webM. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid editing v. paid advocacy (editing)

2014-01-10 Thread geni
but only due to its age. The tourist targeting museum in the area would be the Jorvik Viking Centre. I'd assume the largest tourist draw is actually the National Railway Museum (certainly it has the best class of cameras) but that is a national collection rather than regional. -- geni

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF employee writing articles for $300

2014-01-06 Thread geni
which you are blocked indefinitely. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WG: Invitation to Chapters and Photographers for the European Parliament Project 2014

2014-01-03 Thread geni
away across the English channel. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright URAA trolls on Wikimedia Commons

2013-12-30 Thread geni
disruptive for them. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdored

2013-12-29 Thread geni
On 29 December 2013 12:55, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Can we please stop paying the Microsoft and NSA taxes The WMF doesn't. and start buying datacenter equipment which costs a lot less? Cubieboard/Cubietrucks for instance? Ref.:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Porn blocking in the UK: en:wp blocks on O2

2013-12-22 Thread geni
having an extensive article on the subject. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Porn blocking in the UK: en:wp blocks on O2

2013-12-22 Thread geni
On 22 December 2013 20:51, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 December 2013 19:31, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 December 2013 13:35, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: For your amusement: http://pseudomonas.dreamwidth.org/120535.html We are strictly-HTTPS

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

2013-12-19 Thread geni
. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton_Socon_Castle -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

2013-12-18 Thread geni
preprocessing to remove things like stray text. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2013-14 Round 2 FDC/annual plan grants timeline moved out by a month: proposals due April 1, 2014

2013-12-18 Thread geni
On 18 December 2013 17:09, Tomasz W. Kozlowski tom...@twkozlowski.netwrote: This is so untrue I don't even know where to start. Perhaps having a look at the latest Foundation report and the 2013-14 Annual Plan might be good places to begin your research, geni. I'm aware that the EMF funds

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

2013-12-15 Thread geni
searchable and fairly easy to import although my search results have been turning up less than 1% that area really of interest an even then the quality isn't always usable. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia and Internet2

2013-10-12 Thread geni
database we have is the commons image database and a sneaker net might be the most practical option there. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Planned school curriculum by MPAA

2013-09-25 Thread geni
can catch you out there is that it may be possible to copyright typography (in the UK that copyright lasts for 20 years). geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Planned school curriculum by MPAA

2013-09-24 Thread geni
) and we would actually benefit from our uploaders having a working knowledge of copyright. Knowing all the exceptions is something best left to more experienced users. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Progress...

2013-07-26 Thread geni
tools, rather than defending themselves from them. http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/07/08/moocs-and-economic-reality/ Err the mention of Wikipedia is a throwaway line in an article about massive open online courses. I'm not seeing the significance. -- geni

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Picturing Canada: historic Canadian photography now on Commons

2013-07-01 Thread geni
: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scalp_dance,_Blackfoot_Indians_%28HS85-10-18743%29_original.tif -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] If you are passionate about world hunger, sustainability and global issues please read this

2013-06-19 Thread geni
to end large scale malnutrition in north korea the deaths of 10 million or so people in Seoul during the opening stages of removing the kimn family from power make such actions undesirable. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in blacklist trouble again

2013-05-08 Thread geni
). They folded the first time. Were they foolish enough to think that there would not be a second? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UK.Gov passes Instagram Act

2013-05-02 Thread geni
end up under a free license. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UK.Gov passes Instagram Act

2013-05-02 Thread geni
when it was first proposed? Seriously I've seen this topic floating around on various photography sites. Any idea who is behind the campaign and why? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UK.Gov passes Instagram Act

2013-05-02 Thread geni
On 2 May 2013 10:54, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 May 2013 08:37, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 May 2013 07:54, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: If that's it, the law is completely useless, it just parrots general EU regulations. The big question in Europe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Train Wikiexpedition in Poland

2013-04-26 Thread geni
in york is free. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] questions on the use of banner space to promote a cause

2013-03-30 Thread geni
devote banner space on project home pages to CFAA advocacy?[6] No since none of those have any impact on our core issues. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Longest living hoax?

2013-03-05 Thread geni
On 5 March 2013 16:42, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: It's also telling that the longest hoax was about ancient history: it matches the popular belief that history is by far the biggest weakness of Wikipedia. Err thats not a popular belief. -- geni

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New proposal for a wiki Project!

2013-02-18 Thread geni
by the upside of easier communication between people. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-12 Thread geni
ignores the attempted power grab by the language mob. Why is this meant to be a bad thing? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help needed to complete and expand the Wikimedia glossary

2012-11-21 Thread geni
as well: Been done: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiSpeak -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation and Saudi Telecom (STC) partner to provide access to Wikipedia free of mobile data charges in the Middle East

2012-10-15 Thread geni
would assume that they take the view that it is something they can manage on their own. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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