Dear all,
In January it was announced that Wikimedia UK had reached an agreement with
Roger Bamkin and Terence Eden to accept the donation of the intellectual
property rights of QRpedia to Wikimedia UK. WMUK are choosing to do this
via a company called Cultural Outreach limited.
This will mean
Thanks Katherine, I just have a couple of questions if you have a moment...
1) Why did WMUK choose to incorporate a new company to host the qrpedia IP?
2) Who are the officers / trustees of Cultural Outreach Ltd and how are
they chosen?
3) Are there already or will there need to be cross
Hi all -
George Mason University just posted a one year position for a remote
Wikipedia Affiliate. It's unpaid, but that's not the point: if selected,
you'll have full access to GMU's library resources, including access (via
proxy) to their electronic journals. There's a huge amount of
On 20 December 2013 18:45, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
2) Who are the officers / trustees of Cultural Outreach Ltd and how are
they chosen?
See https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cultural_Outreach_Limited
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Hallo.
The old version of the puzzle globe Wikipedia logo was retired in 2010.
It had wrongly painted letters in several languages as well as some
graphical imperfections. The current logo has correct letters and improved
vector graphics quality.
Despite the replacement having taken place almost
Here's an interesting article:
Rapunzel and the Ivory Tower: How Open Access Will
Save the Humanities (from Themselves)
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1302.2013.865977
in which Wikipedia is discussed.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Most news agencies don't just go to the web for their images due to
copyright reasons.
They will have a media collection system that they have the logo stored in.
So the best response would be for the Media Relations/Comms teams to
actually contact them and request they use the updated logo.
Well, one thing we did was actually retiring the old logo, just few
months ago. :)
Odder provided no less than 108 Wikipedias with a v2 logo.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2013-May/031550.html
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On Dec 20, 2013 1:58 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:
Most news agencies don't just go to the web for their images due to
copyright reasons.
They will have a media collection system that they have the logo stored
in.
That is no doubt true for major media corporations, but a lot of
On 20 December 2013 22:02, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Can we do anything about it? My SEO skills are about non-existent. A
Facebook friend suggested changing the title of the Commons file
File:Wikipedia-logo.png to File:Wikipedia-logo-v1.png and
Svip, 20/12/2013 23:27:
Looking at the Google results, the first two are from Wikipedia (and
these are the old logo), but from the articles [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia
logos]] and [[Logo of Wikipedia]]. Both of which still includes the
old logo.
I think the article(s) in question might be key to
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