Hi, Here are a few places where the choice of CC0 for Wikidata was discussed:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata#Is_CC_the_right_license_for_data.3F https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2012-12-18a https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata//2012-April/thread.html#146 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-12-02/Op-ed (including the comments below) Best, Andreas On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 1:10 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz < psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote: > Thank you Léa for the link, > > I seize the opportunity to also ask anyone who have links related to > Wikidata and the choice of CC0 as license for this project. > > What Wikidata already achieved and its further possibilities is very > attractive to me. But so far CC0 is a far more repulsive point. Now maybe > with more documentation I might change my mind, I think at least I should > make some research to have a more informed opinion on the topic. So any > documentation is welcome on how it was decided, what have been the misc. > pros/cons highlighted, how was the community involved (or not) in the > decision. > > Also, I heard last week during Wikiconvention Francophone that there are > some actions on sister projects that generate content on Wikidata, without > informing the user it does so. Afterward I was explained with more precise > statements, saying that it was things like syslogs stored in Wikidata. I > would like to be sure: > > * what actions on sister projects might generate publication of what > kind of data on Wikidata > * and that legal enquiries have been done about that. So we are > certain that none of this publication might create legal threats. As > I understand it, the user action end up with published (unlike raw > syslog) data under a license which wasn't explicitly agreed. Or > hopefully, I was misinformed, or misunderstood something. > > Thanks again for the link, I think I will watch the conference about > Wiktionary with much interest and profit other records to learn more about > the project. > > Cheers > > > Le 28/10/2017 à 09:31, Léa Lacroix a écrit : > >> What makes me happy today: the WikidataCon, the first international >> conference dedicated to the WIkidata community, is about to start, and >> will >> be live-streamed :) >> >> The link to access the livestream is: http://streaming.media.ccc.de/ >> wikidatacon2017 >> >> The conference will be broadcasted from today at *11:00 (UTC+2)*, starting >> with the talk "State of the project" by Lydia Pintscher. The content >> of the *rooms >> A, A1, A2 and A3* will be streamed, unless the speaker requests not to be >> recorded. >> >> You can find the program here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/ >> Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program/Saturday >> >> The videos will also be available later under CC-BY-SA: I'll share the >> links with you as soon as possible. >> >> Best, >> >> On 28 October 2017 at 03:36, quiddity <pandiculat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> My mistake, there is a one line reference to Wikipedia in the lyrics. >>> (The time_continue parameter didn't work on my first play through, but >>> I checked again to be sure and then I heard the reference.) Sorry for >>> the mistake. My other points stand. </grump> >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 6:29 PM, quiddity <pandiculat...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> James, that video does Not seem to have any connection to the >>>> Wikimedia movement. (I checked the credits, but didn't watch the whole >>>> song). >>>> Please don't distract the hundreds of subscribers here with irrelevant >>>> >>> content. >>> >>>> Bare links without any explanation are also an anti-pattern to avoid. >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 6:13 PM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> >>>> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=150&v=Eijc2tGe-zM >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >>>>> >>>> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >>> wiki/Wikimedia-l >>> >>>> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>>>> >>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >>> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >>> wiki/Wikimedia-l >>> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>> >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik > i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
