Silly question for you all:
Is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_cake.jpg actually
copyrighted to the WMF as a WMF logo? The cake was made for Wikimedia
UK, so it's technically a derivative work, perhaps...
Any ideas what the copyright status of this should be? Does the author
(Jezhotwells) have the ability to release it under a free licence, if
s/he wishes?
Richard Symonds
Office& Development Manager
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 207 065 0992
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Hi folks,
I've started this page to help list the various themed multi-event
campaigns that have been popping up around the Wikimedia universe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWorldDays
Not sure if it's the best name, I was also thinking WikiSpring, or
WikiSeason, or WikiWhatnot.
(yes, that page could maybe be on meta instead :P )
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hello all,
It came to my attention that people are using wikimedia mailing lists as
there primary contact adres for Linkdin. I guess that this is not the way
it should be done.
Today I found:
Felix Reolon using wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org as there primary
e-mail.
i don't know him, but I'm sure somebody knows is him?
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Kind regards,
Huib Laurens
WickedWay.nl
Webhosting the wicked way.
Hi Sue,
Thanks for the reply. I didn't expect a response until Monday at the
earliest!
I understand that the primary audience was the Board and that they would be
seeing this with the addition verbal commentary. However, when WMF is also
making these slides public, which I think is a great thing to do, then we
(the public) are a secondary audience that doesn't have the benefit of that
verbal commentary. When WMF is building these sorts of presentations,
especially if you know that the presentations will be made public, I think
it would be wise to consider what these presentations will communicate both
to the primary audience and to the public. In this case, what I perceived
was a significant difference between what was being communicated to the
Board and what the "ground truth" is for those of us who are looking forward
to the visual editor but have yet to get the benefit of the public rollout.
Regarding the problem of the lower than expected number of active editors, I
think that a hope of many people is that the rollout of the visual editor
will help to address that issue, and this is one reason why I'm personally
so strongly interested in the visual editor's progress.
Thanks again for making the presentation public and for your reply.
Pine
Wikimedia Commons has the potential to become a central repository of
creative commons content. There are a large number of other sites running
Mediawiki software to partner with. If we could either host their images or
allow users of other sites to simultaneously upload to both Commons and the
other wiki in question we could increase the rate we are expanding out
image content and hopefully bring more people into the movement
One idea a number of organizations I have spoken with have agreed to in
principle is them altering their websites to allow simultaneous uploading
to both Wikimedia Commons and their own site. All these Wikis need is the
software which would allow their users to do this. Some host both NC and
non NC content. The upload tool could thus give people the option to
simultaneously upload to commons if people are willing to release under our
license.
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
Hello people,
So after receive authorization from all candidates, the list of candidates
+ statements are in meta, and you can find it here: http'://
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/2012/Candidates
Until 14 March is time for questions, so if you have any questions to any
of the candidates, please put your question in this page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/2012/Candidates…
are already some questions and some answers there)
So there is only one thing. Candidates are not forced to answer, and even
if they do, they're not forced to answer in public, so might happens that
some answers won't go to meta. If you ask a question and the candidate
don't want to make the answer public, I will send you a mail with the
answer - but of course, you can't leak the answer anywhere.
Also do keep in mind this isn't a community vote. We are trying to keep as
public as we can, but the discussions the chapters will have will be
private. So don't expect me to post those in meta.
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*Béria Lima*
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* 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>**
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>2012/3/1 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>> Other companies doing similarly:
>>
>> http://blog.nestoria.co.uk/why-and-how-weve-switched-away-from-google-ma
>> http://www.fubra.com/blog/2011/11/24/google-maps-free-alternatives/
>... And, in case anybody missed this piece of news, so will
>Wikimedia's official mobile app in version 1.1, now in beta.
A further bit of information in case people aren't aware of it:
A number of Wikipedias (noticeably ru-wiki, de-wiki, es-wiki, fr-wiki,
it-wiki, pl-wiki, fa-wiki, ca-wiki, da-wiki el-wiki, lv-wiki, nl-wiki,
no-wiki and possibly some others I don't know of) have already included
OpenStreetMap maps in geo-referenced articles through the osm-gadget (
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:OpenStreetMap/en ). Some of them
since over a year. The maps are rendered for now on, and served by a
server provided by the toolserver project.
So yes, the model imho works well and can hopefully eventually be
included in en-wiki as well.
This server also renders maps in all of the 200+ Wikipedia languages,
provided the data is available in OSM (
http://toolserver.org/~osm/locale/ ), although due to performance
reasons they are afaik not currently in production other than on the
ru-wiki. In order to make different language maps feasible for
production in all Wikipedias, Wikimedia-de is funding a project to try
and find a scalable solution. (
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Kolossos/CPB )
Kai
