Re: [Wikimedia-l] Windows 10 lockscreen images

I wanted to suggest the same, you read my mind... Il Domenica 20 Agosto 2017 1:10, Andy Mabbett ha scritto: Those of you running Windows 10 will be familiar with the regularly-changing "lockscreen" images showing things like beautiful scenery and scenes from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Canmore database and claims of copyright on public domain works

Funny thing, That is what I would have said of Fae as well Cheers, Peter -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rogol Domedonfors Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2017 11:07 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Canmore database and claims of copyright on public domain works

Andy (or Fae), if you've corresponded with them, could you please post that correspondence here? Todd ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Windows 10 lockscreen images

Those of you running Windows 10 will be familiar with the regularly-changing "lockscreen" images showing things like beautiful scenery and scenes from nature: https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/find-windows-spotlight-lock-screen-images-windows-10/ The last one I just saw was labelled "copyright

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Canmore database and claims of copyright on public domain works

On 19 August 2017 at 21:16, Rogol Domedonfors wrote: A: Because it messes up the order in which we read text Q: Why is top posting such a bad thing? A: Top posters Q: What's the most annoying thing on mailing lists? > Fae, > > You seem rather too quick to leap to the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Canmore database and claims of copyright on public domain works

Peter, Thanks for the compliment. I just call them as I see them. Richard On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Peter Southwood < peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > Rogol, > Not everyone is blessed with your easy-going tolerance and automatic > assumption of good faith. > Cheers, > Peter > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Canmore database and claims of copyright on public domain works

Rogol, Not everyone is blessed with your easy-going tolerance and automatic assumption of good faith. Cheers, Peter -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rogol Domedonfors Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2017 10:16 PM To: Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Canmore database and claims of copyright on public domain works

Fae, You seem rather too quick to leap to the conclusion that anyone who disagrees with you on intellectual property has an imperfect understanding or is consciously committing "copyfraud". Have you made any attempts whatsoever to engage with the organisation in question to find what their

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advertizing Wikimania (youtube) livestreams on centralnotice

Just briefly a short comment: visitors should be approached with messages especially created for them. I am always sceptical of simply re-using a content made for one context/audience for another context/audience. Kind regards Ziko 2017-08-19 9:25 GMT+02:00 K. Peachey : > I

[Wikimedia-l] Canmore database and claims of copyright on public domain works

The Canmore database, https://canmore.org.uk, describes itself as the "online catalogue of the National Record of the Historic Environment. It holds detailed information and archive images for more than 300,000 places in Scotland." Canmore is part of Historic Environment Scotland (HES). I'm aware

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding the endowment

Caveat: I support a definitely more frugal WMF so also the endowment. Try to read it from a different perspective. Before donating *lots* of money donor wants to be sure WMF will be truly committed in pursuing the plan of an endowment. Putting the same amount of money is a prove, for donors, WMF

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding the endowment

Thanks for the link, Rogol. It is wonderful to hear that these generous donors have decided to match a deposit of $5 million into the endowment. It is always a good thing if someone from the board could expand on what (if anything) the board is planning to do with the proposed expenses. The way

[Wikimedia-l] Funding the endowment

I was surprised to read the record https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Approval_of_Endowment_funding_(Fiscal_Year_2016-2017)_and_matching_$5_million_gift_from_Peter_Baldwin_and_Lisbet_Rausing of the decision to place $5M into the endowment. After the anouncement by Lisa Gruwell on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advertizing Wikimania (youtube) livestreams on centralnotice

I notice those youtube links didn't use the nocookie domain or display warnings about external youtube links, example being the previous WP Zero Petition On 18 August 2017 at 22:45, Lodewijk wrote: > Hi all, > >