Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:38 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? ( Article by Achal Prabhala) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/1 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0 ( Single Page Version) In 1941, a young Argentinian librarian who would soon go completely blind published a story about the futility of the “total” library. His inspiration was Kurd Lasswitz, a 19th century German philosopher and science-fiction pioneer, whose own idea of a “universal” library was a mathematical nightmare of frighteningly large but finite proportions. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, and his story, The Library of Babel, (taking off from the mythical Tower of Babel, a place of linguistic dysfunction) spawned a minor publishing industry of its own. Borges’ library was not a happy place: its chronically overworked librarians were suicidal, thuggish cults periodically vandalised the books, people spent lifetimes searching for a catalogue without success, and — wondrous as it all was — no one expected to find anything useful there ever. Eighty years after it was written, Borges’ feverish fantasy is a cautionary tale for those who are tempted to take Internet-era fantasies at their word. When a Google executive was asked to describe the perfect search engine, he is reported to have said, “It would be like the mind of God.” Preposterous, yes; but also exciting. And anyone excited enough to adopt this as a mission statement would do well to have a cold shower, and heed Borges’ conclusion on the topic — “The library is unlimited and cyclical”. Happily, there are more human, and altogether more humble manifestations of the desire to learn and share and prosper. In ancient history, the pre-biblical city of Babylon was a working counterpoint to the biblical Tower of Babel; a bustling site where diverse crowds made good together. In the present day, we are no closer to knowing everything, but we have Wikipedia: a bustling website where diverse people from everywhere in the world create miracles. Wikipedia’s humility is the flip-side to its success, and it comes from wanting to be precisely the opposite of the total library: call it a perpetually partial library, if you will. No one who has spent even a minute contributing anything to it would dare assume that the job is done, the perspective complete, or the game won. Eleven years ago to this day, Jimmy Wales typed out “Hello world!” and Wikipedia was born. In 1989, Richard Stallman pioneered a form of copyright licensing for software that allowed programmers and users to do virtually anything they liked with it. This formed the basis for free and open source software, or FOSS. In 1995, Ward Cunningham used FOSS to build the underlying software for a novel form of collaboration — the “wiki”. By this time, the benefits of a generous copyright licence to software were apparent, and it was extended to mainstream culture — to words, sounds and images. Wikipedia was among the early exponents of this free culture experiment, quickly followed by sister projects of the Wikimedia Foundation: Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks and more. Wikipedia’s collaborative system of knowledge has exceeded everyone’s wildest expectations. Today, it is the world’s fifth most visited website — and the sole non-profit upstart in the oligarchical fiefdom that is our online landscape. There are thriving communities of volunteers in countries like India and South Africa, among several other places, who are helping us discover that learning does not have to be a passive act, and that the value of generosity can be productive and revolutionary at once. Interestingly enough, it was about a hundred years ago that a young, idealistic lawyer set off on a similar journey. Affected by colonialism in his home, India, and faced with debilitating segregation laws in his adopted home, South Africa, he saw the productive and revolutionary potential in generous knowledge. Over a long sea journey from London to Cape Town, he wrote down his ideas on self-determination and independence. The young lawyer was, of course, Gandhi, and his book, Hind Swaraj, would go on to become the intellectual blueprint for the Indian freedom movement. The original was written in Gujarati in 1909. One year later, it was translated into English and published as Indian Home Rule. On the cover of the first edition of this English translation is a prominent, if unusual, copyright legend. It reads, “No Rights Reserved”. This is news to me. here is the link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Gandhi-Home-Rule-First-Edition-1909.jpg a page I will show to every one! -- GN ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:38 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? ( Article by Achal Prabhala) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/1 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0 ( Single Page Version) In 1941, a young Argentinian librarian who would soon go completely blind published a story about the futility of the “total” library. His inspiration was Kurd Lasswitz, a 19th century German philosopher and science-fiction pioneer, whose own idea of a “universal” library was a mathematical nightmare of frighteningly large but finite proportions. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, and his story, The Library of Babel, (taking off from the mythical Tower of Babel, a place of linguistic dysfunction) spawned a minor publishing industry of its own. Borges’ library was not a happy place: its chronically overworked librarians were suicidal, thuggish cults periodically vandalised the books, people spent lifetimes searching for a catalogue without success, and — wondrous as it all was — no one expected to find anything useful there ever. Eighty years after it was written, Borges’ feverish fantasy is a cautionary tale for those who are tempted to take Internet-era fantasies at their word. When a Google executive was asked to describe the perfect search engine, he is reported to have said, “It would be like the mind of God.” Preposterous, yes; but also exciting. And anyone excited enough to adopt this as a mission statement would do well to have a cold shower, and heed Borges’ conclusion on the topic — “The library is unlimited and cyclical”. Happily, there are more human, and altogether more humble manifestations of the desire to learn and share and prosper. In ancient history, the pre-biblical city of Babylon was a working counterpoint to the biblical Tower of Babel; a bustling site where diverse crowds made good together. In the present day, we are no closer to knowing everything, but we have Wikipedia: a bustling website where diverse people from everywhere in the world create miracles. Wikipedia’s humility is the flip-side to its success, and it comes from wanting to be precisely the opposite of the total library: call it a perpetually partial library, if you will. No one who has spent even a minute contributing anything to it would dare assume that the job is done, the perspective complete, or the game won. Eleven years ago to this day, Jimmy Wales typed out “Hello world!” and Wikipedia was born. In 1989, Richard Stallman pioneered a form of copyright licensing for software that allowed programmers and users to do virtually anything they liked with it. This formed the basis for free and open source software, or FOSS. In 1995, Ward Cunningham used FOSS to build the underlying software for a novel form of collaboration — the “wiki”. By this time, the benefits of a generous copyright licence to software were apparent, and it was extended to mainstream culture — to words, sounds and images. Wikipedia was among the early exponents of this free culture experiment, quickly followed by sister projects of the Wikimedia Foundation: Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks and more. Wikipedia’s collaborative system of knowledge has exceeded everyone’s wildest expectations. Today, it is the world’s fifth most visited website — and the sole non-profit upstart in the oligarchical fiefdom that is our online landscape. There are thriving communities of volunteers in countries like India and South Africa, among several other places, who are helping us discover that learning does not have to be a passive act, and that the value of generosity can be productive and revolutionary at once. Interestingly enough, it was about a hundred years ago that a young, idealistic lawyer set off on a similar journey. Affected by colonialism in his home, India, and faced with debilitating segregation laws in his adopted home, South Africa, he saw the productive and revolutionary potential in generous knowledge. Over a long sea journey from London to Cape Town, he wrote down his ideas on self-determination and independence. The young lawyer was, of course, Gandhi, and his book, Hind Swaraj, would go on to become the intellectual blueprint for the Indian freedom movement. The original was written in Gujarati in 1909. One year later, it was translated into English and published as Indian Home Rule. On the cover of the first edition of this English translation is a prominent, if unusual, copyright legend. It reads, “No Rights Reserved”. This is news to me. here is the link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Gandhi-Home-Rule-First-Edition-1909.jpg a page I will show to every one! Another page to show everyone ...
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
Tinu, can I FW to my chapter list (is also a closed list)? _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 04:08, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: *The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?* ( Article by Achal Prabhala) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/1 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0 ( Single Page Version) * In 1941, a young Argentinian librarian who would soon go completely blind published a story about the futility of the “total” library. His inspiration was Kurd Lasswitz, a 19th century German philosopher and science-fiction pioneer, whose own idea of a “universal” library was a mathematical nightmare of frighteningly large but finite proportions. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, and his story, The Library of Babel, (taking off from the mythical Tower of Babel, a place of linguistic dysfunction) spawned a minor publishing industry of its own. Borges’ library was not a happy place: its chronically overworked librarians were suicidal, thuggish cults periodically vandalised the books, people spent lifetimes searching for a catalogue without success, and — wondrous as it all was — no one expected to find anything useful there ever. Eighty years after it was written, Borges’ feverish fantasy is a cautionary tale for those who are tempted to take Internet-era fantasies at their word. When a Google executive was asked to describe the perfect search engine, he is reported to have said, “It would be like the mind of God.” Preposterous, yes; but also exciting. And anyone excited enough to adopt this as a mission statement would do well to have a cold shower, and heed Borges’ conclusion on the topic — “The library is unlimited and cyclical”. Happily, there are more human, and altogether more humble manifestations of the desire to learn and share and prosper. In ancient history, the pre-biblical city of Babylon was a working counterpoint to the biblical Tower of Babel; a bustling site where diverse crowds made good together. In the present day, we are no closer to knowing everything, but we have Wikipedia: a bustling website where diverse people from everywhere in the world create miracles. Wikipedia’s humility is the flip-side to its success, and it comes from wanting to be precisely the opposite of the total library: call it a perpetually partial library, if you will. No one who has spent even a minute contributing anything to it would dare assume that the job is done, the perspective complete, or the game won. Eleven years ago to this day, Jimmy Wales typed out “Hello world!” and Wikipedia was born. In 1989, Richard Stallman pioneered a form of copyright licensing for software that allowed programmers and users to do virtually anything they liked with it. This formed the basis for free and open source software, or FOSS. In 1995, Ward Cunningham used FOSS to build the underlying software for a novel form of collaboration — the “wiki”. By this time, the benefits of a generous copyright licence to software were apparent, and it was extended to mainstream culture — to words, sounds and images. Wikipedia was among the early exponents of this free culture experiment, quickly followed by sister projects of the Wikimedia Foundation: Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks and more. Wikipedia’s collaborative system of knowledge has exceeded everyone’s wildest expectations. Today, it is the world’s fifth most visited website — and the sole non-profit upstart in the oligarchical fiefdom that is our online landscape. There are thriving communities of volunteers in countries like India and South Africa, among several other places, who are helping us discover that learning does not have to be a passive act, and that the value of generosity can be productive and revolutionary at once. Interestingly enough, it was about a hundred years ago that a young, idealistic lawyer set off on a similar journey. Affected by colonialism in his home, India, and faced with debilitating segregation laws in his adopted home, South Africa, he saw the productive and revolutionary potential in generous knowledge. Over a long sea journey from London to Cape Town, he wrote down his ideas on self-determination and independence. The young lawyer was, of course, Gandhi, and his book, Hind Swaraj, would go on to become the intellectual blueprint for the Indian freedom movement. The original was written in Gujarati in 1909. One year later, it was translated into English and published as Indian Home Rule. On the cover of the first edition of this English translation is a prominent, if unusual, copyright legend. It reads,
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
Beria, you dont need to ask - please go ahead :) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:27:06 -0200 From: berial...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? Tinu, can I FW to my chapter list (is also a closed list)?_ Béria Lima (351) 925 171 484 Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. On 17 January 2012 04:08, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? ( Article by Achal Prabhala) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/1 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0 ( Single Page Version) In 1941, a young Argentinian librarian who would soon go completely blind published a story about the futility of the “total” library. His inspiration was Kurd Lasswitz, a 19th century German philosopher and science-fiction pioneer, whose own idea of a “universal” library was a mathematical nightmare of frighteningly large but finite proportions. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, and his story, The Library of Babel, (taking off from the mythical Tower of Babel, a place of linguistic dysfunction) spawned a minor publishing industry of its own. Borges’ library was not a happy place: its chronically overworked librarians were suicidal, thuggish cults periodically vandalised the books, people spent lifetimes searching for a catalogue without success, and — wondrous as it all was — no one expected to find anything useful there ever. Eighty years after it was written, Borges’ feverish fantasy is a cautionary tale for those who are tempted to take Internet-era fantasies at their word. When a Google executive was asked to describe the perfect search engine, he is reported to have said, “It would be like the mind of God.” Preposterous, yes; but also exciting. And anyone excited enough to adopt this as a mission statement would do well to have a cold shower, and heed Borges’ conclusion on the topic — “The library is unlimited and cyclical”. Happily, there are more human, and altogether more humble manifestations of the desire to learn and share and prosper. In ancient history, the pre-biblical city of Babylon was a working counterpoint to the biblical Tower of Babel; a bustling site where diverse crowds made good together. In the present day, we are no closer to knowing everything, but we have Wikipedia: a bustling website where diverse people from everywhere in the world create miracles. Wikipedia’s humility is the flip-side to its success, and it comes from wanting to be precisely the opposite of the total library: call it a perpetually partial library, if you will. No one who has spent even a minute contributing anything to it would dare assume that the job is done, the perspective complete, or the game won. Eleven years ago to this day, Jimmy Wales typed out “Hello world!” and Wikipedia was born. In 1989, Richard Stallman pioneered a form of copyright licensing for software that allowed programmers and users to do virtually anything they liked with it. This formed the basis for free and open source software, or FOSS. In 1995, Ward Cunningham used FOSS to build the underlying software for a novel form of collaboration — the “wiki”. By this time, the benefits of a generous copyright licence to software were apparent, and it was extended to mainstream culture — to words, sounds and images. Wikipedia was among the early exponents of this free culture experiment, quickly followed by sister projects of the Wikimedia Foundation: Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks and more. Wikipedia’s collaborative system of knowledge has exceeded everyone’s wildest expectations. Today, it is the world’s fifth most visited website — and the sole non-profit upstart in the oligarchical fiefdom that is our online landscape. There are thriving communities of volunteers in countries like India and South Africa, among several other places, who are helping us discover that learning does not have to be a passive act, and that the value of generosity can be productive and revolutionary at once. Interestingly enough, it was about a hundred years ago that a young, idealistic lawyer set off on a similar journey. Affected by colonialism in his home, India, and faced with debilitating segregation laws in his adopted home, South Africa, he saw the productive and revolutionary potential in generous knowledge. Over a long sea journey from London to Cape Town, he wrote down his ideas on self-determination and independence. The young lawyer was, of course, Gandhi, and his book, Hind Swaraj, would go on to become the intellectual blueprint for the Indian freedom movement. The original was written
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
Actually I do because there is a note: I*mportant Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.* (bold is mine) Anyway, thanks to both of you :D _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 10:28, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Beria, you dont need to ask - please go ahead :) -- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:27:06 -0200 From: berial...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? Tinu, can I FW to my chapter list (is also a closed list)? _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 04:08, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: *The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?* ( Article by Achal Prabhala) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/1 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0 ( Single Page Version) * In 1941, a young Argentinian librarian who would soon go completely blind published a story about the futility of the “total” library. His inspiration was Kurd Lasswitz, a 19th century German philosopher and science-fiction pioneer, whose own idea of a “universal” library was a mathematical nightmare of frighteningly large but finite proportions. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, and his story, The Library of Babel, (taking off from the mythical Tower of Babel, a place of linguistic dysfunction) spawned a minor publishing industry of its own. Borges’ library was not a happy place: its chronically overworked librarians were suicidal, thuggish cults periodically vandalised the books, people spent lifetimes searching for a catalogue without success, and — wondrous as it all was — no one expected to find anything useful there ever. Eighty years after it was written, Borges’ feverish fantasy is a cautionary tale for those who are tempted to take Internet-era fantasies at their word. When a Google executive was asked to describe the perfect search engine, he is reported to have said, “It would be like the mind of God.” Preposterous, yes; but also exciting. And anyone excited enough to adopt this as a mission statement would do well to have a cold shower, and heed Borges’ conclusion on the topic — “The library is unlimited and cyclical”. Happily, there are more human, and altogether more humble manifestations of the desire to learn and share and prosper. In ancient history, the pre-biblical city of Babylon was a working counterpoint to the biblical Tower of Babel; a bustling site where diverse crowds made good together. In the present day, we are no closer to knowing everything, but we have Wikipedia: a bustling website where diverse people from everywhere in the world create miracles. Wikipedia’s humility is the flip-side to its success, and it comes from wanting to be precisely the opposite of the total library: call it a perpetually partial library, if you will. No one who has spent even a minute contributing anything to it would dare assume that the job is done, the perspective complete, or the game won. Eleven years ago to this day, Jimmy Wales typed out “Hello world!” and Wikipedia was born. In 1989, Richard Stallman pioneered a form of copyright licensing for software that allowed programmers and users to do virtually anything they liked with it. This formed the basis for free and open source software, or FOSS. In 1995, Ward Cunningham used FOSS to build the underlying software for a novel form of collaboration — the “wiki”. By this time, the benefits of a generous copyright licence to software were apparent, and it was extended to mainstream culture — to words, sounds and images. Wikipedia was among the early exponents of this free culture experiment, quickly followed by sister projects of the Wikimedia Foundation: Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks and more. Wikipedia’s collaborative system of knowledge has exceeded everyone’s wildest expectations. Today, it is the world’s fifth most visited website — and the sole non-profit upstart in the oligarchical fiefdom that is our online landscape. There are thriving communities of volunteers in countries like India
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: I*mportant Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.* (bold is mine) You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: Important Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. (bold is mine) When we forward the emails with the above note, to other technical mailing lists, they scold me for forwarding the copyrighted material. I do not see any info on copyright or have to put a footnote like above in any of the news websites. I request Tinu to remove the footnote or just share the links and some snippet. Thanks. You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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oh common, we don't need to start a cruzade because of this. Isn't that big deal _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 11:17, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: Important Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. (bold is mine) When we forward the emails with the above note, to other technical mailing lists, they scold me for forwarding the copyrighted material. I do not see any info on copyright or have to put a footnote like above in any of the news websites. I request Tinu to remove the footnote or just share the links and some snippet. Thanks. You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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Srikanth, There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people were/are following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There is no need to make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are Indians and we should be proud of that. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni http://mr.wikipedia.org From: Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16 Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: Important Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. (bold is mine) You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
/me is proud of being indian too Oh, I forgot I'm not indian! ;) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 12:23, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Srikanth, There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people were/are following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There is no need to make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are Indians and we should be proud of that. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni http://mr.wikipedia.org -- *From:* Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com *To:* Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: I*mportant Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.* (bold is mine) You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
You don't have the blue Indian passport yet. :p On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: /me is proud of being indian too Oh, I forgot I'm not indian! ;) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 12:23, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Srikanth, There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people were/are following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There is no need to make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are Indians and we should be proud of that. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni http://mr.wikipedia.org -- *From:* Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com *To:* Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: I*mportant Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.* (bold is mine) You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
You know me thinks that WikiProject India should start giving out WITI passports (Wikipedia interested in things Indian) ;) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: You don't have the blue Indian passport yet. :p On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: /me is proud of being indian too Oh, I forgot I'm not indian! ;) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 12:23, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Srikanth, There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people were/are following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There is no need to make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are Indians and we should be proud of that. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni http://mr.wikipedia.org -- *From:* Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com *To:* Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: I*mportant Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.* (bold is mine) You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
I have a blue Brazilian one, is good enough? (At least is the same colour ;) ) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 12:50, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: You don't have the blue Indian passport yet. :p On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: /me is proud of being indian too Oh, I forgot I'm not indian! ;) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 12:23, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Srikanth, There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people were/are following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There is no need to make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are Indians and we should be proud of that. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni http://mr.wikipedia.org -- *From:* Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com *To:* Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: I*mportant Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.* (bold is mine) You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
