Re: [Wikimedia-l] Creative Commons 4.0 draft--please help answer questions about attribution!
As has been posted here before, CC is working on version 4.0 of their licenses--in case you haven't seen it, the public draft is up in several different formats at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0_Drafts Right now their focus is on attribution, and they are asking several specific questions about things to change in the new version. (A few of the open questions: Is there too much flexibility in reasonable manner? Or not enough? Is there any information people should be required to provide that they aren't providing? Should you be able to use a shortcut by just providing a link, and if so, what should you have to include?) The questions and space for comment is on the CC wiki here: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0/Attribution_and_marking#Questions_about_attribution.2Fmarking_in_4.0 (Ultimately, we hope to be able to use the 4.0 license version as the default license version for Wikimedia projects--either BY-SA or BY, depending on which project you are using. Several Wikimedians are already participating in these discussions, as well as the legal staff and myself, but your input on things that have and haven't worked well in 3.0 would really help the process, especially if you have good examples.) I will be posting this message around to some of the wikis as well, but please pass this message around where it is relevant, especially if you are active on non-English projects! Cheers, Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia free: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate Web: http://www.mindspillage.org Email: k...@wikimedia.org, k...@mindspillage.org (G)AIM, Freenode, gchat, identi.ca, twitter, various social sites: mindspillage ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] No internet censorship in Hong Kong
Not a problem. Many east and south-east Asian countries' citizens enjoy visa-free access to Hong Kong ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HK_Visa_Policy.png ). Visa-on-demand for business or leisure travel is also available for residents of most major cities in mainland China and all of Guangdong province (the province surrounding Hong Kong). Application needs to be done prior to travel, but rejections of such visa is unheard of in the last few years. I have relatives from Guangzhou who visit Hong Kong regularly on these visas and they've never had a problem :) That said, more complex procedures are needed for people from rural areas of mainland China to visit Hong Kong. With our working partnerships in the Meeting and Exhibition Office in the government, we endeavour to ensure that every registered attendee of Wikimania 2013 gets the visa assistance they need. There are special visa for residents of Taiwan to visit Hong Kong. Other than a few extraordinary cases involving high-profile controversial politicians, rejection of such visa is also unheard of. Deryck On 11 May 2012 22:53, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote: On 11/05/2012 21:16, Kim Bruning wrote: Right. My concern about Israel was that almost no one from the surrounding area would be able to visit. (This turned out to be accurate, but it was too late to fix). Will many people from surrounding countries be able to visit .hk without problems? If so, that should be ok then. That and I'm looking forward to visiting a place with sane border customs practices for a change ;-) While pretty much every countries from Europe, NS America Australasia are visa free according to the bid page, a lot of Asian and Middle Eastern countries would require visa. Even those places from where visa would be required, they should be okay I believe. Ironically, the only exception to that is if the person is from mainland China (PRC). KTC -- Experience is a good school but the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine __**_ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
