Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Servers and Copyright Issues

2013-05-13 Thread Achal Prabhala
Hi Yann, Following on this, do you have some specific examples of Gandhi work (images, text or whatever) that is in the public domain in India but had a problem being put on to Commons or Wikisource because of copyright issues in the US? I suspect that a list of specific cases would be quite

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Servers and Copyright Issues

2013-05-13 Thread Yann Forget
Hi Achal, Please see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Indian_law_deletion_requests The following are old photos from India deleted because of USA law: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Mountbatten_at_Gandhi_cremation.jpg

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Servers and Copyright Issues

2013-05-13 Thread Achal Prabhala
Thanks Yann, this is extremely interesting. Balasankar, is there an easy to access list of actual or proposed deletions from Wikisource on similar grounds? (There's an interesting question on Gandhi here:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC office hours with CIS-A2K Team

2013-05-13 Thread satyaakam goswami
Looking forward to see you tomorrow at IRC! Hi Nitika, Wanted to be there at the meeting could not make it , is there a transcript available for people who are curious to know what happening in the meeting ? -Satya fossevents.in ___

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC office hours with CIS-A2K Team

2013-05-13 Thread Nitika Tandon
IRC Chat log on A2K Work Plans #wikimedia-in.2013-05-13 Description: Binary data Hi All,Please find attached log of the IRC chat.Thank you to all those who took out time to give us some feedback. And for those who've written to us separately we'll aim to organise a one-on-one with you before the