Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interpretation of CC NC from SUISA

2019-05-19 Thread James Heilman
We all agree NC licenses are poor. The WMF position was a reflection of the community's position at the time and this likely remains the community's position today. If we as a movement however were to decide we want to allow NC video such that we can use Khan academy and Ted talks I doubt the WMF

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interpretation of CC NC from SUISA

2019-05-19 Thread Mister Thrapostibongles
James > Per "the Foundation has decided", it is not the foundation but our movement > that has decided that we will mostly only allow licenses that allow > commercial reuse. > That doesn't seem quite right. The Foundation Board adopted a resolution on 23 March 2007, which is published at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Tchad

2019-05-19 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
Welcome on board, Chade! :D Paulo KuboF Hromoslav escreveu no dia domingo, 19/05/2019 à(s) 15:33: > Great to have you here, Chadians! > > KuboF Hromoslav > Esperanto and Free Knowledge > > Dňa so, 18. máj 2019 17:46 Kirill Lokshin > napísal(a): > >> Hi everyone! >> >> I'm very happy to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interpretation of CC NC from SUISA

2019-05-19 Thread Lane Rasberry
In 2009 Creative Commons published "Defining Noncommercial", a 250-page report presenting survey data on what people consider to be "noncommercial". There is a copy of the report at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_NonCommercial_license My summary of that report is that no one knows

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Tchad

2019-05-19 Thread KuboF Hromoslav
Great to have you here, Chadians! KuboF Hromoslav Esperanto and Free Knowledge Dňa so, 18. máj 2019 17:46 Kirill Lokshin napísal(a): > Hi everyone! > > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized > [1] Wikimedia Community User Group Tchad [2] as a Wikimedia User

Re: [Wikimedia-l] If we had proper language models…

2019-05-19 Thread John Erling Blad
Perhaps I'll explain this a bit better… Words can be converted into a vector representation by a word2vec algorithm [1]. After conversion words will be a point in a high dimensional space. Relations between words will then be vectors between such points. Similar relations (or related relations)

[Wikimedia-l] If we had proper language models…

2019-05-19 Thread John Erling Blad
Microsoft has unveiled an idea about a grammar and style tool for Word. [1] I proposed something similar for detecting problematic grammatical constructs in the content translation tools.[2] It is a couple of years ago now, and I closed the task. [1]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interpretation of CC NC from SUISA

2019-05-19 Thread James Heilman
Per "the Foundation has decided", it is not the foundation but our movement that has decided that we will mostly only allow licenses that allow commercial reuse. By the way EN WP also allows fair use of certain images which may not permit commercial reuse in certain jurisdictions. James On Sun,