Babelfish says:
Any text that has for author the Pope or a whichever ministry of the
Sede Saint of hour in then e' protect from the copyright. No publishing
house potra' piu' to publish the text of a enciclica and a papal speech
without previo contracted to payment with the Publishing Bookcase
Vatican (Lev). To establish it e' a decree signed slid 31 May from the
Secretary of State Vatican, cardinal Sodano Angel.
What is a publishing house under Vatican law? Does this apply to
for-profit only? Online works too?
Fascinating that his Holiness would lock up IP rights in the first year
of his Papacy. Ugh.
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valdelli(a)bluemail.ch
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright of Vatican stuff
Sorry, the copyright will be applied only to NEW Vatican's documents.
Please, read this:
http://www.ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/topnews/news/2006-01-22_2439593.
html
it's in italian but it's the more importante italian information bureau.
If someone need to bring out Vatican's documents he must contact the
Libreria Editrice Vaticana.
Ilario
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>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:49:45 +0100
>From: Pawe? Dembowski <fallout(a)lexx.eu.org>
>To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright of Vatican stuff
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>> Honestly? Ignore it. The Vatican can't make laws outside it's few
>> quadratmeters and outside there are other copyright laws that we obey
>> anyways.
>> Of those on wikisource only Pacem in Terris is younger than 50 years.
>> ciao, tom
>
>Polish Wikisource has more.
>
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>Ausir
>Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia
>http://pl.wikipedia.org
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To see in more detail how the recent fund drive went, I started looking at
the raw data and put some figures together here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tobacman/Stats/Fundraising
. Comparing this most recent fundraiser to the two earlier fundraisers in
2005, it seems very clear that *something* happened to make the week
following 12/28/2005 a very good one for the Foundation. More specifically,
previous fundraisers had tended to fizzle, and this one seemed to be taking
a similar path until its New Year's fireworks.
How can we figure out what made this fundraiser take off?
Maybe additional data, tests, or experiments could help in future planning--
It would be great if we could have the techniques in place for such
remarkable success from the very beginning of the next fundraiser.
Jeremy
Hi, I just wrote a blog entry about learning languages for kids - and of
course adults could do it that way as well ... I wrote about kids since
I see that it works with mine (4 years old).
Well it is about using our materials on commons/wiktionary maybe also
wikipedia to learn (well I have really many more things in mind than
what is written in that blog, but it does not make sense to write really
"everything" that would be important - a step by step approach is best I
suppose).
http://www.wesolveitnet.com/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=31
I would very much like to know your opinions and maybe there is also
someone interested in helping out with certain things.
Thanks!
Best,
Sabine
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User:WonYong, who insisted that the contents of Wikipedia should be
restricted by National Security Law weeks ago (
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2006-January/043321.html
), claims that copyrighted images can be uploaded to Korean Wikipedia
and Wikimedia Commons, through "quotation policy."
Some months ago, WonYong wanted to upload image files from South
Korean government, but found that they are copyrighted and not allowed
to be uploaded. Now he came up with a new (proposed) policy that
allows uploading almost any image files. His point is that even
copyrighted images can be _quoted_ in Wikipedia articles, just like
citations in academic articles. He says that he won't no longer need
fair use, which he had proposed in Korean Wikipedia before.
South Korean copyright law states that publicized materials may be
quoted for report, research, or educational purposes, within a
reasonable scope. A bulletin board in the Copyright Discussion and
Arbitration Committee website (http://copyright.or.kr/) answered that
this "quotation" article of the bill is not suitable for writing
encyclopedias.
The problem is that he pushes his policy in not only Korean Wikipedia
but Wikimedia Commons. He says he distrusts copyright.or.kr, and
doubts that other Wikipedians and those in Commons do have "legal
mind."
Ongoing discussion in Wikimedia Commons is here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#ALLOW_COPYRIGHTED_IM…
And the diff is here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons%3AVillage_pump&diff=…
Puzzlet Chung
I am proposing a Wiki project for the disambiguation of author names
in MEDLINE [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/], an online database
of biomedical literature, which is maintained by the National Library
of Medicine. This resource contains more than 11 million references
and it is used by researchers worldwide.
I am doing this because
(1) ambiguous names (like J. Smith) are a problem for certain analyses
of the database,
(2) the institution developing the database is not considering
approaching this problem in the short term,
(3) name disambiguation can only be carried by the authors or close
colleagues, thus a collaborative project is needed.
See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAuthors
I would be glad to have your comments/help.
Thanks,
Miguel Andrade
On the English language Wikipedia, there is a poll for voting on a
proposal which would grant the rollback privilege to good contributors,
who are not admins.
--> http://starglade.org/rfr
Other large projects might find the proposal worthy of consideration for
implementation!
Chris (Talrias on en.wikipedia.org)
--
Chris Jenkinson
chris(a)starglade.org
"Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Wikimedia Canada/*Wikimédia Canada* hopes to soon join the international
organization ranks. Some users, including myself, have started to develop
the bare basics of what the project would be, and hope that it will soon
morph into a full-fledged chapter.
Any Canadians on the list are encouraged to join, and anyone that wishes to
lend their guidance and/or advice to this chapter is greatly welcomed to do
so.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Canada
Nick Moreau
First months of year 2006. were very succesful for Wikimedia SCG, especially
in media promotions.
First, at the last day of past year, in GNUzilla (electronic magazine
dedicated to free software) is published an article about Wikimedia SCG and
Wikipedia in serbian language.
Then at January 8, daily newspaper "Glas javnosti" published article "Free
competition-Wikipedia", comparing Wikipedia and Britanica, and Serbian
Wikipedia was mentioned.
January the 11th:
-Milos Rancic talked about the Wikipedia and Wikimedia at the channel two of
the Radio of Belgrade
January the 17th:
- Article about Wikipedia in daily newspaper Politika
- Jovana Milicevic talked about at the Art television
- On the Serbian television B92 site, in culture chapter, was placed the
news about Wikipedia promotion with comments
- The same promotion was announced on the site of the Belgrade
January the 18th:
- Milos Rancic talked on the radio B92
January the 19th:
- Platform about Wikipedia took place in Youth center Dom omladine
- Jovana's interviews were broadcasted on the radio Sajam and Radio of
Belgrade
- News about the platform published at the national television web site
January the 20th:
- Goran Obradovic speaked in the morning programe on the National television
- Jovana Milicevic speaked in the morining programe on the television
Metropolis
- Goran Obradovic and Nikola Smolenski talked for weekly newspapers Vreme,
and that interview will be published at Thursday 26th January
Wikimedia SCG meetings are taking place every Sunday in Youth center Dom
omladine Belgrade.
Jovana Milicevic
Hi!
Wikinews will be hosting a second Interview of the Month
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month), 2000
UTC on 23 January 2006, Danny O'Brien
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_O%27Brien) of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation) will be
interviewed live in IRC (irc://irc.freenode.net/wikinews), and you are
invited to attend and be a part of the action.
Danny O'Brien is the "Coordinator of Activism" at the EFF, which he came
to from a technology journalism career. He helped found the Open Rights
Group, amongst other digital and online rights activisms.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a U.S. ngo, with staff also in
Canada and the United Kingdom, focused on free speech rights in a
digital world. Focused on defending those rights as they are related to
technology, and educating the press, public, and policymakers about the
issues, EFF has taken a number of actions which put the spotlight on the
project recently: Sony BMG's CD protection issue, cracking the US
government's programme to have laser printers put tracking information
on every document they print, and publishing the Legal Guide for
Bloggers. They're also in the advocacy and lobby industry, and are
closely watching Broadcast Flag legislation in the US capitol which is
scheduled for debate on 24 January.
The Wikinews Interview of the Month is a program to give citizen
journalists the opportunity to be involved in interviews with news
makers. Research and questions are developed by everyone who wishes to
take part both before the interview (for this interview, you can get
involved at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Interview_of_the_month/January_2006…)
and during the interview. As the interview progresses, questions may be
passed to the moderators who will try to squeeze in as many questions as
possible.
Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, and is produced in 19
languages.
Amgine
Before Jovana sends (in Monday) our weekly digest about events related
to Wikimedia SCG chapter, I want to say/ask a few things:
- I think that lists Foundation, Wikipedia, Wikinews and email to the
Board are good places for such informations. If someone thinks that
some list(s)/email(s) should be excluded/included, please, tell us
that.
- In the last 7-10 days we had a lot of contacts with media, one
rostrum (I think that our dictionaries made correct translation :)
this is some kind of lecturer with debate after that) as well as our
regular meetings at Sunday with a lot of new people who are interested
in developing Wikipedia (in general, Serbian, but others, too) and
software for conversion (improvement of Zhengzhu's Chinese and Serbian
version and possibility to implement it not only for Serbian version
of MediaWiki, but, also for some others with similar needs).
- Thanks to Dragan Ambrozic, our vice president and professional in
event making, we have a lot contacts with media. I am surprised with
the number of journalists who contacted our PR Jovana and me. In
Friday we had 26 new registered users. I looked relations between
registered users and users with more then 10 edits and when 26 users
register accounts it means that we would have 3 Wikipedians more; if
we continue with such progression, we would have 100 new users per
month, very soon (to compare: the best month before was August 2005
with 26 new users; also, approximation for December 2005 was that we
would have 203 users at all!).
- People outside of the project like our idea very much, many of them
are willing to help in different ways. (Finally, we have the article
about Jimbo ;) ) And I can say that I am very happy because of recent
development: people who are not my close friends are calling me by
phone and they are saying "I heard about Wikipedia in the news!".
- It also should be noted that Wikimedia SCG is the first free
knowledge organization in Serbia and Montenegro. There are no such
organization in Serbia. And in this moment we are covering the hole
space related to free knowledge. (There are some organization which
promote open content, BUT they are doing that only because it is the
new way for getting money from sponsors.)