Re: [Wikimedia-l] Hiding versions because of copyright violation

[Marielle Volz]

Are you talking about deleting revisions? There is a global policy on this,
found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oversight_policy

There are local rules as well, compiled here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oversight_policy/Local_policies

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Revision_deletion

Cheers,
Marielle

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 5:44 PM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

>  privacy violations is not standard at all. For example some wikis hide
> personal details that people put on purpose, while other ones see no point
> since it's their will to show them.
>
> Also, even if it is not strictly related to private information, blocking
> deceased users is not standardized among platforms.
>
> Il lunedì 14 gennaio 2019, 18:29:36 CET, effe iets anders <
> effeietsand...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>  Hi all,
>
> This is one of these things that seems particularly hard to find, so I'd
> like to pick your collective brains on this:
>
> What are the various policies across our little universe on using the 'hide
> version' functionality to hide historical versions of articles? I would
> especially appreciate it if you could elaborate a bit on how it's used in
> practice with regards to privacy violations (what is the threshold of
> private information that would justify hiding versions) and copyright
> violations (when do you actually hide the versions, rather than just remove
> it from the current version and leave it in the history).
>
> Are there any global policies on this? I think not, but always better to
> double check :).
>
> Best,
> Lodewijk
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 30 April 2017)

[Marielle Volz]

What made me happy this week was the discovery of some good scientific
imagery that was openly licensed!

The USDA has created a bunch of identification sites for species of
agricultural interest and released the images into the public domain.
I was looking for images of a particular mite and discovered the Bee
Mite site has released most of their images and all of their text to
the PD [1]. (I have uploaded to commons although done a bit of a hack
job on it). There are other sites which would also be a candidate for
batch upload, which are listed here: http://idtools.org/identify.php
(anyone interested in molluscs?)

I have also discovered this Clinical Skills textbook licensed under CC
by 4 attribution.[2] I am in the process of adding some high quality
medical diagrams to articles on wiki. This same website hosts a bunch
of other open text books which may be a similarly good source of
content: https://opentextbc.ca/

[1] http://idtools.org/id/mites/beemites/
[2] https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou
 wrote:
> +1 on this.
> News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :)
>
> K.
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W  wrote:
>
>> I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User Group
>> .
>>
>> Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this):
>>
>> The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic settings for
>> indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited experience, I
>> concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I bought
>> my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not intuitive to me
>> as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop", the
>> manual was written for someone who already had good technical knowledge of
>> how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted. Wikipedia has
>> some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would have
>> helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer. After a
>> few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more knowledgeable
>> people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a
>> variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons Photographers group
>> will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and consider ways
>> to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in
>> situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable
>> open-source contributions are very high.
>>
>> What's making you happy this week?
>>
>> Pine
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