Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding programs for individuals.

2014-03-01 Thread Jean-Frédéric
*Epic thread unearthing!* Thanks to everybody who added more information - Jan, Itzik, Nicolas, Christoph, Siko & Jessie. Since apparently there was no Meta page for that(tm) (yet!) I went ahead >> and >> drafted > Funding_programs >> > > Th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Statement for the police about the fundraising?

2014-03-01 Thread Alex Monk
Apparently they got no response: http://www.finlandtimes.fi/national/2014/03/01/5137/Wikipediafailstomeetdeadlineonpolicerequest On 10 February 2014 15:41, Jane Darnell wrote: > Yes, he would definitely have enjoyed this one > > 2014-02-10 9:51 GMT+01:00, Leinonen Teemu : > > On 8.2.2014, at 13

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Statement for the police about the fundraising?

2014-03-01 Thread Jane Darnell
The plot thickens! Of course it would be interesting to know what the average Finnish Wikipedia user knows about how Wikipedia works and whether they realize upon donation that they are not just donating to "their" Finnish (or Swedish) Wikipedia, but also to all of the other projects... 2014-03-01

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Statement for the police about the fundraising?

2014-03-01 Thread Mathias Damour
Le 01/03/2014 15:49, Jane Darnell a écrit : The plot thickens! Of course it would be interesting to know what the average Finnish Wikipedia user knows about how Wikipedia works and whether they realize upon donation that they are not just donating to "their" Finnish (or Swedish) Wikipedia, but al

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Statement for the police about the fundraising?

2014-03-01 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi Alex, I have checked with Legal. Our deadline for the response was Friday, and our response was indeed filed yesterday. We received an email confirmation from the authorities that the document had been received and we called them as well to confirm safe receipt. It might of course have been

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

2014-03-01 Thread ???
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 yet, You are deluding yourself and reusers if you believe and pro

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

2014-03-01 Thread geni
On 1 March 2014 19:58, ??? 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 yet, >> >> >

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

2014-03-01 Thread ???
On 01/03/2014 23:06, geni wrote: On 1 March 2014 19:58, ??? 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 are unable to pass that guarantee on to any one else. Want means its an objective not somethin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding programs for individuals.

2014-03-01 Thread Samuel Klein
+1 to moving from ElasticSearch to NemoFind. On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Jean-Frédéric wrote: > *Epic thread unearthing!* > > Thanks to everybody who added more information - Jan, Itzik, Nicolas, > Christoph, Siko & Jessie. > > Since apparently there was no Meta page for that(tm) (yet!) I w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding programs for individuals.

2014-03-01 Thread Cristian Consonni
2014-03-02 1:36 GMT+01:00 Samuel Klein : > +1 to moving from ElasticSearch to NemoFind. I am sorry, but NemoFind is a trademark of WM-IT. Now we are going to ask him how to sue you for trademark infringement, since, you know, he already has experience in the field. (Epic troll is epic) C __

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

2014-03-01 Thread geni
On 1 March 2014 23:59, ??? wrote: > On 01/03/2014 23:06, geni wrote: > >> On 1 March 2014 19:58, ??? 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 are unable to pass >>> that guarantee on to an

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

2014-03-01 Thread Mark
On 2/28/14, 1:43 PM, David Gerard wrote: On 28 February 2014 08:27, Delirium wrote: But the other Wikimedia projects are *also* supposed to share that goal: of producing a Free-as-in-freedom encyclopedia whose contents can be safely reused and adapted by a wide range of other people and organi