Re: [Wikimedia-l] End of the Carbon Footprint discussion - for me anyway.

2013-10-11 Thread Geoff Beacon
MF-Warburg I am now going to unsubscribe from this list (for the time-being anyway) so I am not tempted to email to enter into more discussion. It's just not productive for me or you. If you think that my criticisms are just about one particular article you have missed my main point, which

[Wikimedia-l] Someone wants to put their promotional photo on Wikipedia. What's best practices?

2013-10-11 Thread David Gerard
I just got a phone call and followup email today asking about how to upload a photo to be on a Wikipedia article. This has got to be an incredibly common request. What's a standardised way to handle it? Here's the text I wrote back with: === OK - the key point with contributing a picture to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Someone wants to put their promotional photo on Wikipedia. What's best practices?

2013-10-11 Thread Strainu
For this category of people we have OTRS: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS#Licensing_images:_when_do_I_contact_OTRS.3F :) If you want to cut the queue, just contact a volunteer to have the ticket processed. Strainu 2013/10/11 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: I just got a phone call and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Someone wants to put their promotional photo on Wikipedia. What's best practices?

2013-10-11 Thread David Gerard
On 11 October 2013 20:49, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: For this category of people we have OTRS: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS#Licensing_images:_when_do_I_contact_OTRS.3F :) If you want to cut the queue, just contact a volunteer to have the ticket processed. Yes, there's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Someone wants to put their promotional photo on Wikipedia. What's best practices?

2013-10-11 Thread John
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requesting_copyright_permission is from the otherside of the table but might be useful On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: For this category of people we have OTRS:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Someone wants to put their promotional photo on Wikipedia. What's best practices?

2013-10-11 Thread John
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Donating_copyrighted_materials On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:52 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 October 2013 20:49, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: For this category of people we have OTRS:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Someone wants to put their promotional photo on Wikipedia. What's best practices?

2013-10-11 Thread Michael Peel
On 11 Oct 2013, at 20:52, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 October 2013 20:49, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: For this category of people we have OTRS: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS#Licensing_images:_when_do_I_contact_OTRS.3F :) If you want to cut the queue, just

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Someone wants to put their promotional photo on Wikipedia. What's best practices?

2013-10-11 Thread David Gerard
On 11 October 2013 20:56, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote: and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Donating_copyrighted_materials Oh, that's pretty much exactly what I was thinking of. Thank you! - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Someone wants to put their promotional photo on Wikipedia. What's best practices?

2013-10-11 Thread David Gerard
On 11 October 2013 20:58, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: Can't you point them towards: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_licenses to explain a lot of this? I've just followed up with: === Here are useful pages to read

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Someone wants to put their promotional photo on Wikipedia. What's best practices?

2013-10-11 Thread Strainu
2013/10/11 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: On 11 October 2013 20:56, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote: and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Donating_copyrighted_materials Oh, that's pretty much exactly what I was thinking of. Thank you! That's what I wanted to suggest initially,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Someone wants to put their promotional photo on Wikipedia. What's best practices?

2013-10-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
The very nice https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_knowledge_based_on_Creative_Commons_licenses can also be used as final weapon to smash any remaining doubt about SA. (Please help translate:

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia and Internet2

2013-10-11 Thread Jasper Deng
I'm wondering whether Wikimedia has ever considered participating in the Internet2 research network (Wikipedia articlehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2; official website http://www.internet2.edu). I had found out about it after reading a news article about how Missouri University changing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Someone wants to put their promotional photo on Wikipedia. What's best practices?

2013-10-11 Thread MZMcBride
There's also https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard, which features a cartoon puzzle-flower that tries to explain free content. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Someone wants to put their promotional photo on Wikipedia. What's best practices?

2013-10-11 Thread Erik Moeller
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:23 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: There's also https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard, which features a cartoon puzzle-flower that tries to explain free content. It's not a flower, just a small person with a misshapen head. Although it would

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia and Internet2

2013-10-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Jasper Deng, 12/10/2013 01:53: I then read the website and found that Wikimedia's and their missions go together very well; part of it is the commitment to sharing and spreading information. Where did you get this impression? I've read a few pages and to me it just seems the typical research