> Todd Allen wrote:
> Link to caselaw or court order, please?
>
> The DMCA does indeed prohibit distribution of circumvention devices. I
> can't find a thing in it about "numeric values".
*All* discrete information can be encoded as a numeric value. By
converting a program/file/key to it's numeric value you haven't found a
gaping loophole in the DMCA.
Do not think that just because you've converted something to a huge
integer, it suddenly becomes public domain and harmless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal number
Ed.
is on the AACS crack article on es:wp, and they say they're not going
to remove it because en:wp doesn't have it - not unless and until the
Foundation declares it must go.
- d.
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As noted in other threads on several mailing lists, a few admin accounts
on en.wikipedia have been compromised recently, used to vandalize
high-traffic protected pages.
We're starting to roll out some additional protections against
password-guessing attacks, including but not limited to:
* Additional logging to better detect dictionary-style attacks
* Speed-bump measures against multiple failed logins
[But not that should DoS legitimate users. The traditional "lock out the
account after three tries" would make it trivial to lock out all the
site's sysops -- not wise. :)]
* Weak-password checks on existing sysops on our largest sites. Several
accounts have had their weak passwords invalidated and will need to
reset by mail before logging in again.
* Several targeted blocks against known cracking attempts.
Over the coming days we will additionally be rolling out more automated
password-strength checkers at login / set-password / change-password
time to reduce the danger of guessable passwords.
Please distribute this information as appropriate to your local
projects/languages.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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On 5/7/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023(a)comcast.net> wrote:
> Yes. We are not discussing the philosophy behind this and why it should not
> be so. No matter what you discuss here, it will be a violation of the
> Digital Millennium Copyright Act <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA> and
> will still be breaking the law.
>
> Cbrown1023
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jesse Martin
> (Pathoschild)
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 5:31 PM
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] 09-f9-...
>
> Hello,
>
> Wikipedia is not a experiment in civil disobedience. Whether or not
> the law is absurd, it is nonetheless law. Feel free to convince your
> congressperson to get it struck down or militate elsewhere; don't make
> Wikimedia content illegal in the US and the European Union just
> because you disagree with the law.
>
> Yours cordially,
> Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
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Link to caselaw or court order, please?
The DMCA does indeed prohibit distribution of circumvention devices. I
can't find a thing in it about "numeric values".
--
Freedom is the right to know that 2+2=4. From this all else follows.
[also sent to wikipedia-l]
For those who haven't yet heard, someone has been hitting en.wikipedia
with what appears to be an attack looking for admins with weak
passwords - "password", "password1", "[username]", etc. Then they go
on a predictable spree; deleting the main page, mostly. I think we're
down four so far...
It's possible someone might try this in the near future on other wikis
- a lot of vandals tend to only go for en, but you never know, this
one might be feeling multicultural!
This might be a good time to spread the word and ask your admins to
consider checking their passwords are good and secure - after all,
it's good practice anyway.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
Hello there,
English Wikiquote reaches today 10,000 articles. Here is a part of
our press release ...
----
7 May, 2007 (St. Petersburg, Fl) - The Wikimedia Foundation announced
today the creation of the 10,000th article in the English language
edition of Wikiquote (http://www.wikiquote.org), a community-built
multilingual compendium of quotations. The article is for quotes by or
about Langdon Smith (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Langdon_Smith), and
it was started by the Wikiquote contributor whose username is Kalki.
The Wikiquote project itself is going to celebrate its four-year
anniversary on June 27. The Wikiquote in the English language edition
is the biggest and oldest among all Wikiquote language editions. But
the growth is not limited to the English version, as more than 50,000
articles are now being worked on in the non-English editions of
Wikiquote in over 35 languages. As of yet, thirteen projects including
English Wikiquote have more than 1,000 articles: top 5 are English,
German, Polish, Italian and Slovak.
The scope of Wikiquote collection is from notable people like Tony
Blair to creative works like Lord of the Rings or Latter Days in every
language, including sources (where known) and translations of
non-English quotes as Rainer Maria Rilke. Besides articles by source,
Wikiquote also provides its readers articles by theme.
[...]
Since 2004, the English Wikiquote provides a good quotation for
readers every day selected from its collection. It is available on its
Main Page and also archives.
-----
The whole press release is available on
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Press_releases/May_2007
--
KIZU Naoko
Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org
* habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *
Anyway after this lowpoint in my wikipedia history in which after 3,5
years of editing , over 20.000 edits and over 500 articles on
nl.wikipedia. 100's of hours spend in anti-vandalism actions, helping
people everywhere etc etc.
After all this I do not even get a chance by an arbcom to explain why I
did what I did, and I get blocked without anyone even arsed to tell me
about the fact it is time to go. I know when I am not appreciated somewhere.
Waerth
On Sun, 6 May 2007, Florence Devouard wrote:
>> I would like to see some policy saying that the logo can be used for
>> any reason as long as it falls within the functioning of wikipedia,
>> but as I am not the copyright holder... :) Also some guidance on
>> wikipedia logo derivatives would be great, I kinda lean towards no
>> derivatives for style consistency reasons, but that's just my opinion.
>>
>> Judson
>> [[:en:User:Cohesion]]
>
>
> A community logo has been created specifically for that reason:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg
The community logo and the derivatives created so far are not particularly
compelling. I'm not sure that relying heavily on the meta-colors,
which may not have been particularly carefully chosen in the first place,
is a great idea. Perhaps we should have a community logo contest for
something to represent the combined communities?
This is independent of the question of how the community can or should use
the project logos. Many of the derivatives of Wikimedia logos made so far,
for fun or celebration or illustration, have been lovely; I hope we continue
to inspire the kind of creativity associated with the Google logo.
> The natural course of action for them was to use one of the official
> Wikimedia projects' logos or the Wikimedia Foundation logo. Since those
> logos are copyrighted and are trademarks of WMF, their use would imply
> official endorsement by WMF. Hence, this practice is generally frowned
> upon by WMF.
The use of logos other than the foundation logo should not indicate
endorsement by the foundation, any more than the mention of the names of
those projects should. One does use logos and names to indicate
affiliation; to the extent that community groups are in fact part of the
community and affiliated with it, this would seem appropriate. How could
this be a bad thing?
> And yes, please, avoid creating derivatives of the Wikipedia logo (or
> any other wikimedia project logo).
What is the concern here? It would be useful to have a transparent and
speedy process for approving elegant or inspiring derivatives, for
holidays, new formats or media, and other special events.
SJ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content#Policy
As worded, this appears to apply to Wikimedia images on user pages -
which aren't using someone else's work as "fair use", but aren't free
content. Is that the case?
If Wikimedia images aren't forbidden on user pages, what says so?
What about derived versions of Wikimedia images on user pages?
- d.
