Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

David, Great to hear from you. A correction, as you seem to misunderstand who I am. I am not conducting public relations. I am not paid for public relations. I am simply an unpaid volunteer Wikimedian and I do not see why I should apologize for that fact. The Wikimedia community is supposed to be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

Hi Geni, Thanks for your feedback on copyright. Rather than my personal failure or mistake, I find the argument that either simple or faithful restoration work on an ancient artefact will mean it creates new copyright for the museum unlikely, based on the absence of any evidence I have seen on man

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Technical Committee (TechCom)

Hello All! Daniel and I would like to share some good news: After talking about it for years, and vetting the draft for months, it's finally done: the Architecture Committee has adopted a proper charter defining its purpose, operation, and authority. You can find the charter here:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

On 29/07/17 02:12, geni wrote: > Your mistake is in assuming the only work here is from the 2000 year > old sculptor and bronze worker. Cf. The Cutty Sark and Knosos? Gordo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Technical Committee (TechCom)

Victoria Thanks for that. I am sure we all welcome the new Committee. The description of its role mentions that it is "the guardian of the integrity, consistency, stability and performance of the software supporting the Wikimedia projects", and its "authority on technical decisions regarding any

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Technical Committee (TechCom)

Thank you Rogol. The primary way that the volunteer developer community will interact with the TechCom is through the use of the RFC process as was the case with the ArchCom beforehand. The TechCom itself of course is open to the volunteer developer community for participation and since we are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Technical Committee (TechCom)

Victoria Thanks you for your prompt and full reply. However, you describe how volunteer developers will interact with TechCom, but my question was about the users across the world and the content contributors in the various projects, who will be using the products and services that WMF and the pt