Hi Anil, These are good suggestions and thanks for your contributions in helping us think through the process.
We'll need to do some preparatory work. As you've pointed out -- we''ll need a few guidelines on how the project will work, and I suspect that we may need to develop additional support resources, finish the missing templates etc. It's a big task -- we have more than 24,000 uploaded files, so its going to take a little time :-). What do you think -- given that this is a community wide issue, should we set up a WE community workgroup? (See: http://wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Workgroups/Guidelines). Cheers Wayne On 20 March 2010 00:17, aprasad <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Dr. Wayne, > > Exactly, we require a barnraising event. Some thoughts... > > > - Let us take (your) first mail in this discussion as the official > notification for the need to review image uploading procedure and licensing > of already uploaded images to ensure they are CC-BY-SA complaint. > - Community Volunteers may place a "License under review" template on > the edit page of the images that do not specify license > - Community may be requested to review their own uploads by themselves > and place CC-BY-SA license in sure cases - community support will be > available for this process. (Shall we specify a deadline for this?) > - Members may request deletion on the edit page of images that are sure > cases of license violation. (For this shall we require a second level of > reviewers to recommend deletion to the Admin user? ) > - Initiate a community support system to find out free license > equivalents when the images marked for deletion are found to be essential > for widely used OER pages on WE. > - Create a WE support page exclusively for this venture > > Though it will take time, I think there is no way other than examining each > and every image through a barnraising event, because WE matters now. > > > Warm regards > Anil > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Wayne Mackintosh < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Anil, >> >> You're right we definitely need to think about getting existing images >> sorted --- >> >> Perhaps we should think about organising a community barnraising event ( >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_raising) to help. >> >> We'll need to think about how we will do this -- I guess there are many >> questions, for example: >> >> >> - Do we delete or place a warning of sorts on images where we are not >> sure of the licensing? >> - I suspect that we will find many images which are clearly personal >> photographs that have been uploaded -- can we assume that these are >> licensed >> under our default CC-BY-SA license? >> - Should we initiate community strategies to find free licensed >> equivalents for images where there are clear copyright contraventions. >> - Other questions? >> >> I'm very chuffed and pleased to see these improvements --- getting better >> one step at a time :-) >> >> Cheers >> Wayne >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 19 March 2010 19:33, aprasad <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Great work! much needed, now community members may also review the >>> license position of already uploaded images. Definitely, I agree with Wayne, >>> uploading images first to commons.wikimedia.org and then link it to WE >>> is the ideal choice. We may make it a part of image uploading policy. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Jim Tittsler <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 19:20, Joshua Gay <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > Is it possible to get a copy of this code? >>>> >>>> It is the code used by the WMF Commons, with only minor changes to >>>> suit WikiEducator. You can see our versions at >>>> http://WikiEducator.org/MediaWiki:Upload.js and >>>> http://WikiEducator.org/MediaWiki:UploadForm.js. There is some good >>>> documentation on the original at >>>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:UploadForm.js/Documentation >>>> >>>> I'm still working my way through all of the possible licenses and >>>> their associated templates... but slowly making progress. I think I >>>> have the CC-0, CC-BY, and CC-BY-SA cases which are the most common >>>> here. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "WikiEducator" group. >>>> To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org >>>> To visit the discussion forum: >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+ >>>> unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words >>>> "REMOVE ME" as the subject. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Warm regards >>> >>> Anil >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "WikiEducator" group. >>> To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org >>> To visit the discussion forum: >>> http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+ >>> unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words >>> "REMOVE ME" as the subject. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. >> Director, >> International Centre for Open Education, >> Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. >> Board of Directors, OER Foundation. >> Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org >> Mobile +64 21 2436 380 >> User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg >> Skype: WGMNZ1 >> Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "WikiEducator" group. >> To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org >> To visit the discussion forum: >> http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+ >> unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE >> ME" as the subject. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+ > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > ME" as the subject. > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
