Our previous agreement with the Presidency of Argentina has entered a
grey zone where we don't know exactly what we are allowed to do with
their media.
So this agreement needs a new negociation for renewal or the best
termination terms.
Could anyone help ?
We need someone with a good knowledge of Wikimedia Commons licencing policies
We need someone with access to OTRS so that he/she can read the former
E-mail agreement.
We need a lawyer or someone with experience of conducting successful
negociations.
For more details, see :
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Licensing#Template:CC-AR-Pre…
Hi folks,
as you may be aware, Peter Kaufman et al. recently created a "Video
for Wikipedia" brochure for cultural and educational institutions:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Videowikipedia_v1.pdf
For purposes of localization and adaptation, it would be great to have
a source in a free format. Unfortunately it was made in InDesign. If
there are any volunteers who can handle a conversion to Scribus, that
would be great. The sources are here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Video_for_Wikipedia.zip
Any help would be most welcome.
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Hello,
As you may have noticed, Roan, Krinkle and me have started to more
tightly integrate image licensing within MediaWiki. Our aim is to
create a system where it should be easy to obtain the basic copyright
information of an image in a machine readable format, as well as
querying images with a certain copyright state (all images copyrighted
by User:XY, all images licensed CC-BY-SA, etc)
At this moment we only intend to store author and license information,
but nothing stops us from expanding this in the future.
We have put some information in a not so structured way at mw.org [1].
There are some issues open on the talk page [2]. Input is of course
welcome, both here or preferably at the talk page.
Bryan
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Files_and_licenses_concept
[2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Files_and_licenses_concept
This may turn out to be a huge win for free culture if it's
administered well. Many of the resulting resources may turn out to be
useful for Wikibooks, Wikiversity and Wikimedia Commons. I'm
especially pleased that they avoided adding non-commercial use
restrictions.
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26100
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html
Chromium will support only Theora and VP8, Chrome to follow. Same as Firefox 4.
(How close are we to allowing VP8 on WMF? I understand Greg Maxwell,
as one of those actually working on making the VP8 code drop usable,
had some qualms about the code at the time.)
- d.
Hi all,
As most of you probably know, I wrote Flickr upload bot back in May
2007 because there was a lot demand for uploading free images from
Flickr to Commons. And apparently people find it useful, since as of
September 2010, over 80k images have been uploaded via this bot. In
addition over 50k images have been uploaded via a similar bot by
Magnus Manske.
Unfortunately as you may know, every other day those tools break (mine
more than Magnus'). Both have an annoying authentication mechanism,
which requires you to do extra stuff to be able to upload (either post
a token to a file page, or use TUSC). Both problems would be solved if
there was a MediaWiki extension to handle this task.
I eventually plan to write a MediaWiki extension that does such a
thing and get it enabled on Commons. Therefore, I need to know what
you like and dislike about those tools, so that I can take this
feedback into account when writing this extension. Don't expect to see
something in the short term though, but I hope that in the mid-long
term we will have such an extension on Commons.
-- Bryan