There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies.
One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never!
I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:Peace_Hyde_... explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
They are nominated for deletion.
An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense.
"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
Just saying.
Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans.
Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over?
I'm in flames here!
Is that one of your policies too !!!
I used to be in flames and be super furious but after I realized how we roll I just chilled. So unfortunately this is how we roll don't worry just chill and keep on editing, the machines will decide if your edits are worthy to be part of sum of all human knowledge.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com wrote:
There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies.
One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never!
I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:Peace_Hyde_... explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
They are nominated for deletion.
An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense.
"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
Just saying.
Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans.
Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over?
I'm in flames here!
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
How Wikipedia rolls? How does it? Deleting legitimate articles and images because someone at the other end dont know the true origin and considers every celeb image on Wikipedia to be copyright?
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 19:55 bobby shabangu bobbyshabangu@gmail.com wrote:
Is that one of your policies too !!!
I used to be in flames and be super furious but after I realized how we roll I just chilled. So unfortunately this is how we roll don't worry just chill and keep on editing, the machines will decide if your edits are worthy to be part of sum of all human knowledge.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@gmail.com wrote:
There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies.
One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never!
I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:Peace_Hyde_... explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
They are nominated for deletion.
An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense.
"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
Just saying.
Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans.
Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over?
I'm in flames here!
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
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Exactly... I believe this was one of the elephants we were trying to tackle at Wiki indaba right? On Mar 4, 2015 9:57 PM, "Nkansah Rexford" nkansahrexford@gmail.com wrote:
How Wikipedia rolls? How does it? Deleting legitimate articles and images because someone at the other end dont know the true origin and considers every celeb image on Wikipedia to be copyright?
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 19:55 bobby shabangu bobbyshabangu@gmail.com wrote:
Is that one of your policies too !!!
I used to be in flames and be super furious but after I realized how we roll I just chilled. So unfortunately this is how we roll don't worry just chill and keep on editing, the machines will decide if your edits are worthy to be part of sum of all human knowledge.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford@gmail.com
wrote:
There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies.
One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never!
I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:Peace_Hyde_... explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
They are nominated for deletion.
An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense.
"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
Just saying.
Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans.
Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over?
I'm in flames here!
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And those elephants, instead of spending time chasing the not so good articles and high level crappy images on Wikipedia, they rather go on easy prey and articles relating to celebs not well known, of course because persons like myself are toothless and won't have anything to do.
Something I always envisioned happening as long as the whole of Africa has no Wikipedia admin to turn around decisions like these.
You know, its hard to think Africanish, if you weren't born as one.
Those elephants are interested in the unnecessaries and instead take fun in deleting articles with so much potential
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 20:08 bobby shabangu bobbyshabangu@gmail.com wrote:
Exactly... I believe this was one of the elephants we were trying to tackle at Wiki indaba right? On Mar 4, 2015 9:57 PM, "Nkansah Rexford" nkansahrexford@gmail.com wrote:
How Wikipedia rolls? How does it? Deleting legitimate articles and images because someone at the other end dont know the true origin and considers every celeb image on Wikipedia to be copyright?
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 19:55 bobby shabangu bobbyshabangu@gmail.com wrote:
Is that one of your policies too !!!
I used to be in flames and be super furious but after I realized how we roll I just chilled. So unfortunately this is how we roll don't worry just chill and keep on editing, the machines will decide if your edits are worthy to be part of sum of all human knowledge.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Nkansah Rexford < nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:
There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies.
One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never!
I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:Peace_Hyde_... explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
They are nominated for deletion.
An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense.
"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
Just saying.
Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans.
Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over?
I'm in flames here!
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
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These are real problems that need some solving.
Now this reminds me, I have been wanting to ask about Wiki Indaba.Whats been made of it?
Any updates on that please!! On Mar 4, 2015 8:08 PM, "bobby shabangu" bobbyshabangu@gmail.com wrote:
Exactly... I believe this was one of the elephants we were trying to tackle at Wiki indaba right? On Mar 4, 2015 9:57 PM, "Nkansah Rexford" nkansahrexford@gmail.com wrote:
How Wikipedia rolls? How does it? Deleting legitimate articles and images because someone at the other end dont know the true origin and considers every celeb image on Wikipedia to be copyright?
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 19:55 bobby shabangu bobbyshabangu@gmail.com wrote:
Is that one of your policies too !!!
I used to be in flames and be super furious but after I realized how we roll I just chilled. So unfortunately this is how we roll don't worry just chill and keep on editing, the machines will decide if your edits are worthy to be part of sum of all human knowledge.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Nkansah Rexford < nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:
There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies.
One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never!
I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:Peace_Hyde_... explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
They are nominated for deletion.
An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense.
"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
Just saying.
Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans.
Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over?
I'm in flames here!
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In order for an image to be accepted by Wikimedia Commons, it needs to be explicitly freely licensed, or in the public domain. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing
Getting verbal, or even vague written permission, from the copyright holder is not enough. There's an email template to follow to get the right permissions for the images so that they can be used: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates
The reason for the deletion request for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah,_Jr. article is that it's almost word-for-word taken from http://www.ashesi.edu.gh/about/ashesi-s-president/biography.html
That article is copyrighted, and content cannot be directly used on Wikipedia.
It's worth taking some time to understand licensing and copyright issues - it'll make future contributions much less painless.
ian
On 04/03/2015 21:56, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
How Wikipedia rolls? How does it? Deleting legitimate articles and images because someone at the other end dont know the true origin and considers every celeb image on Wikipedia to be copyright?
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 19:55 bobby shabangu <bobbyshabangu@gmail.com mailto:bobbyshabangu@gmail.com> wrote:
Is that one of your policies too !!! I used to be in flames and be super furious but after I realized how we roll I just chilled. So unfortunately this is how we roll don't worry just chill and keep on editing, the machines will decide if your edits are worthy to be part of sum of all human knowledge. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford@gmail.com <mailto:nkansahrexford@gmail.com>> wrote: There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies. One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never! I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:Peace_Hyde_Mara_Mentor.jpg explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager. They are nominated for deletion. An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense. "Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr. Just saying. Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans. Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over? I'm in flames here!
Thanks Gilfillan for the email templates.
The word-for-word reason on the Patrick awauh article, perhaps I'm the only one who cant count at least even 10 sentences matching word for word between the Wikipedia article and the biography page.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 20:15 Ian Gilfillan wikimediaza@greenman.co.za wrote:
In order for an image to be accepted by Wikimedia Commons, it needs to be explicitly freely licensed, or in the public domain. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing
Getting verbal, or even vague written permission, from the copyright holder is not enough. There's an email template to follow to get the right permissions for the images so that they can be used: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates
The reason for the deletion request for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah,_Jr. article is that it's almost word-for-word taken from http://www.ashesi.edu.gh/about/ashesi-s-president/biography.html
That article is copyrighted, and content cannot be directly used on Wikipedia.
It's worth taking some time to understand licensing and copyright issues - it'll make future contributions much less painless.
ian
On 04/03/2015 21:56, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
How Wikipedia rolls? How does it? Deleting legitimate articles and images because someone at the other end dont know the true origin and considers every celeb image on Wikipedia to be copyright?
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 19:55 bobby shabangu bobbyshabangu@gmail.com wrote:
Is that one of your policies too !!!
I used to be in flames and be super furious but after I realized how we roll I just chilled. So unfortunately this is how we roll don't worry just chill and keep on editing, the machines will decide if your edits are worthy to be part of sum of all human knowledge.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford@gmail.com
wrote:
There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies.
One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never!
I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:Peace_Hyde_... explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
They are nominated for deletion.
An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense.
"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
Just saying.
Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans.
Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over?
I'm in flames here!
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
Journalist/Publicist/Social Media Specialist/+12027069881 www.about.me/OralOfori On Mar 4, 2015 3:15 PM, "Ian Gilfillan" wikimediaza@greenman.co.za wrote:
In order for an image to be accepted by Wikimedia Commons, it needs to be explicitly freely licensed, or in the public domain. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing
Getting verbal, or even vague written permission, from the copyright holder is not enough. There's an email template to follow to get the right permissions for the images so that they can be used: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates
The reason for the deletion request for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah,_Jr. article is that it's almost word-for-word taken from http://www.ashesi.edu.gh/about/ashesi-s-president/biography.html
That article is copyrighted, and content cannot be directly used on Wikipedia.
It's worth taking some time to understand licensing and copyright issues - it'll make future contributions much less painless.
ian
On 04/03/2015 21:56, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
How Wikipedia rolls? How does it? Deleting legitimate articles and images because someone at the other end dont know the true origin and considers every celeb image on Wikipedia to be copyright?
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 19:55 bobby shabangu bobbyshabangu@gmail.com wrote:
Is that one of your policies too !!!
I used to be in flames and be super furious but after I realized how we roll I just chilled. So unfortunately this is how we roll don't worry just chill and keep on editing, the machines will decide if your edits are worthy to be part of sum of all human knowledge.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford@gmail.com
wrote:
There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies.
One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never!
I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:Peace_Hyde_... explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
They are nominated for deletion.
An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense.
"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
Just saying.
Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans.
Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over?
I'm in flames here!
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
"Who is that shameless and faceless one doing this?"
Its a human behind an IP address
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015, 10:55 TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori oralofori@gmail.com wrote:
Journalist/Publicist/Social Media Specialist/+12027069881 www.about.me/OralOfori On Mar 4, 2015 3:15 PM, "Ian Gilfillan" wikimediaza@greenman.co.za wrote:
In order for an image to be accepted by Wikimedia Commons, it needs to be explicitly freely licensed, or in the public domain. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing
Getting verbal, or even vague written permission, from the copyright holder is not enough. There's an email template to follow to get the right permissions for the images so that they can be used: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates
The reason for the deletion request for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah,_Jr. article is that it's almost word-for-word taken from http://www.ashesi.edu.gh/about/ashesi-s-president/biography.html
That article is copyrighted, and content cannot be directly used on Wikipedia.
It's worth taking some time to understand licensing and copyright issues
- it'll make future contributions much less painless.
ian
On 04/03/2015 21:56, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
How Wikipedia rolls? How does it? Deleting legitimate articles and images because someone at the other end dont know the true origin and considers every celeb image on Wikipedia to be copyright?
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 19:55 bobby shabangu bobbyshabangu@gmail.com wrote:
Is that one of your policies too !!!
I used to be in flames and be super furious but after I realized how we roll I just chilled. So unfortunately this is how we roll don't worry just chill and keep on editing, the machines will decide if your edits are worthy to be part of sum of all human knowledge.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Nkansah Rexford < nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:
There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies.
One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never!
I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:Peace_Hyde_... explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
They are nominated for deletion.
An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense.
"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
Just saying.
Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans.
Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over?
I'm in flames here!
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
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Such bigots and spinelss nincompoop. Am gonna have fun deleting articles in my own name, no need to do it behind an anonymous IP address.
Let the fun begin...
Journalist/Publicist/Social Media Specialist/+12027069881 www.about.me/OralOfori On Mar 6, 2015 6:23 AM, "Nkansah Rexford" nkansahrexford@gmail.com wrote:
"Who is that shameless and faceless one doing this?"
Its a human behind an IP address
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015, 10:55 TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori oralofori@gmail.com wrote:
Journalist/Publicist/Social Media Specialist/+12027069881 www.about.me/OralOfori On Mar 4, 2015 3:15 PM, "Ian Gilfillan" wikimediaza@greenman.co.za wrote:
In order for an image to be accepted by Wikimedia Commons, it needs to be explicitly freely licensed, or in the public domain. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing
Getting verbal, or even vague written permission, from the copyright holder is not enough. There's an email template to follow to get the right permissions for the images so that they can be used: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates
The reason for the deletion request for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah,_Jr. article is that it's almost word-for-word taken from http://www.ashesi.edu.gh/about/ashesi-s-president/biography.html
That article is copyrighted, and content cannot be directly used on Wikipedia.
It's worth taking some time to understand licensing and copyright issues
- it'll make future contributions much less painless.
ian
On 04/03/2015 21:56, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
How Wikipedia rolls? How does it? Deleting legitimate articles and images because someone at the other end dont know the true origin and considers every celeb image on Wikipedia to be copyright?
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 19:55 bobby shabangu bobbyshabangu@gmail.com wrote:
Is that one of your policies too !!!
I used to be in flames and be super furious but after I realized how we roll I just chilled. So unfortunately this is how we roll don't worry just chill and keep on editing, the machines will decide if your edits are worthy to be part of sum of all human knowledge.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Nkansah Rexford < nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:
There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies.
One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never!
I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:Peace_Hyde_... explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
They are nominated for deletion.
An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense.
"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
Just saying.
Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans.
Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over?
I'm in flames here!
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This is actually ridiculous and reminds me of what someone online has done to the wiki of Kanye West; check www.loser.com
Oral
Journalist/Publicist/Social Media Specialist/+12027069881 www.about.me/OralOfori On Mar 4, 2015 2:23 PM, "Nkansah Rexford" nkansahrexford@gmail.com wrote:
There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies.
One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never!
I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:Peace_Hyde_... explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
They are nominated for deletion.
An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense.
"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
Just saying.
Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans.
Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over?
I'm in flames here!
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Dear Rexford
On 04.03.2015 20:23, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies.
One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never!
OK, that's up to you but you can not complain then that people don't listen to your point of view.
I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File: .jpg explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
They are nominated for deletion.
An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense.
"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
Just saying.
Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans.
Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over?
They were asked to be deleted by a real user: Yann, who is a more than 10 years old Wikimedian. If a few of the inserts on your talk page are made by an IP, it's probably a computer error, Yann is behind this.
I'm in flames here!
I understand, but the solution is to talk to him. You have done it two hours ago and you will get an answer in the next days. But, as a reminder: the owner of the copyright of a photography is the "photograph", not the subject who is photographed.
Emmanuel
Sorry Emmanuel, I didnt do English at school extensively, could you please rephrase this statement?
"But, as a reminder: the owner of the copyright of a photography is the "photograph", not the subject who is photographed."
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 20:12 Emmanuel Engelhart kelson@kiwix.org wrote:
Dear Rexford
On 04.03.2015 20:23, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies.
One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never!
OK, that's up to you but you can not complain then that people don't listen to your point of view.
I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:
.jpg
explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
They are nominated for deletion.
An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense.
"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
Just saying.
Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans.
Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over?
They were asked to be deleted by a real user: Yann, who is a more than 10 years old Wikimedian. If a few of the inserts on your talk page are made by an IP, it's probably a computer error, Yann is behind this.
I'm in flames here!
I understand, but the solution is to talk to him. You have done it two hours ago and you will get an answer in the next days. But, as a reminder: the owner of the copyright of a photography is the "photograph", not the subject who is photographed.
Emmanuel
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On Mar 4, 2015 9:15 PM, "Nkansah Rexford" nkansahrexford@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry Emmanuel, I didnt do English at school extensively, could you please rephrase this statement?
"But, as a reminder: the owner of the copyright of a photography is the "photograph", not the subject who is photographed."
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 20:12 Emmanuel Engelhart kelson@kiwix.org wrote:
Dear Rexford
On 04.03.2015 20:23, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies.
One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never!
OK, that's up to you but you can not complain then that people don't listen to your point of view.
I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:
.jpg
explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
They are nominated for deletion.
An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense.
"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
Just saying.
Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans.
Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over?
They were asked to be deleted by a real user: Yann, who is a more than 10 years old Wikimedian. If a few of the inserts on your talk page are made by an IP, it's probably a computer error, Yann is behind this.
I'm in flames here!
I understand, but the solution is to talk to him. You have done it two hours ago and you will get an answer in the next days. But, as a reminder: the owner of the copyright of a photography is the "photograph", not the subject who is photographed.
Emmanuel
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On 04.03.2015 21:15, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
Sorry Emmanuel, I didnt do English at school extensively, could you please rephrase this statement?
"But, as a reminder: the owner of the copyright of a photography is the "photograph", not the subject who is photographed."
You have written on Yann's talk page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yann#copyright_whatever
"Those images were explicitly emailed to me from the celebs.", a sentence which sounds like an argument proving that this is OK for you to put them online on commons.wikimedia.org.
But, in a normal case, the celebrity does not have any right on these pictures. The photograph who has shot the picture owns the copyright, not the celebrity.
Emmanuel
Hello Emanuel. I get your point now. Makes sense. Okay
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 20:21 Emmanuel Engelhart kelson@kiwix.org wrote:
On 04.03.2015 21:15, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
Sorry Emmanuel, I didnt do English at school extensively, could you please rephrase this statement?
"But, as a reminder: the owner of the copyright of a photography is the "photograph", not the subject who is photographed."
You have written on Yann's talk page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yann#copyright_whatever
"Those images were explicitly emailed to me from the celebs.", a sentence which sounds like an argument proving that this is OK for you to put them online on commons.wikimedia.org.
But, in a normal case, the celebrity does not have any right on these pictures. The photograph who has shot the picture owns the copyright, not the celebrity.
Emmanuel
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Thanks for the links Ian, I'm however still confused about the thousands of pictures used in Wikipedia from Flickr !! Do you know anything about that ??
Felix expect a follow up email from Theresa ( she'll be in contact with all the user groups as well) to find out how far they are with the recommendations/proporsals/decisions taken from the indaba. On 04.03.2015 21:15, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
Sorry Emmanuel, I didnt do English at school extensively, could you please rephrase this statement?
"But, as a reminder: the owner of the copyright of a photography is the "photograph", not the subject who is photographed."
You have written on Yann's talk page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yann#copyright_whatever
"Those images were explicitly emailed to me from the celebs.", a sentence which sounds like an argument proving that this is OK for you to put them online on commons.wikimedia.org.
But, in a normal case, the celebrity does not have any right on these pictures. The photograph who has shot the picture owns the copyright, not the celebrity.
Emmanuel
@bobby the issue of copyright on images can be very stretchy I most times don't fight about.
Photographer who took the celeb's picture. A funny scenario can be this:
I'm a celeb, at an occasion, I realized I looked awesome so I asked someone I dont know to use my phone take a quick shot of me.
I wanna put the image on Commons so I go look for that stranger and put his name on. Come on.
A similar instance is with these celebs. Some are photoshoots where the studio or photographer can be tracked. In many similar instances, it follows the scenario above. So who's the copyright owner?
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 20:34 bobby shabangu bobbyshabangu@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the links Ian, I'm however still confused about the thousands of pictures used in Wikipedia from Flickr !! Do you know anything about that ??
Felix expect a follow up email from Theresa ( she'll be in contact with all the user groups as well) to find out how far they are with the recommendations/proporsals/decisions taken from the indaba. On 04.03.2015 21:15, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
Sorry Emmanuel, I didnt do English at school extensively, could you please rephrase this statement?
"But, as a reminder: the owner of the copyright of a photography is the "photograph", not the subject who is photographed."
You have written on Yann's talk page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yann#copyright_whatever
"Those images were explicitly emailed to me from the celebs.", a sentence which sounds like an argument proving that this is OK for you to put them online on commons.wikimedia.org.
But, in a normal case, the celebrity does not have any right on these pictures. The photograph who has shot the picture owns the copyright, not the celebrity.
Emmanuel
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Hi Rex
A bunch of comments
First, Yann has been a contributor for many years and is very involved in the open source movement (one might even say that he is a bit of an extremist on the topic ;)). So, please consider that he is knowledgeable on the topic. Do not hesitate to seek his help to do the best.
Second, Yann is French, but is mostly living in India (I do not know where he lives right now). So, whilst India and France are indeed on the other side of Earth, please do not take it as the fight of the rich white men in developped world against poor Africa. It would be inappropriate and I really wish we avoid this type of approach generally.
Third, I am not surprised at all by his list of "images to be deleted" and ... I would have done the same if I were a cleaner on Commons. The images listed are obviously of professional quality, done by a professional photographer. It is clearly not amateur pictures. In such cases, it is ABSOLUTLY required that the copyright owner provides an authorization to be archived on OTRS ( the procedure was provided to you in a previous email). With no such authorization, the images MUST be deleted because in the very large majority of cases, these are copyright violations.
Fourth, in most cases of pictures of celebrities taken by photographers, photographers (or the professional studio they work with) stay the copyright owners. And this whatever the country you live in. It is quite unusual that celebrity "buy" the full copyright rights. It is quite frequent that a celebrity wants her picture on Wikipedia (or complain that the one there is not the RIGHT one and ask you to replace it with another). In this case, she will send you a picture, saying "yes, you can use it". THIS IS NOT SUFFICIENT. You need to obtain an official authorization from the copyright holder, per email. It does not matter whether you live in Africa or elsewhere, this is the same for everyone.
If the copyright owner can NOT be identified... then you can not use the picture. Period.
How do we solve this ? Well, 1) either the celeb gets no picture on her wikipedia article 2) or you convince her to provide you with another picture, with the official authorization provided by the copyright owner 3) or you go and visit her (if she accept) and you take a picture 4) or you participate to a public event (such as Festival de Cannes in France or a book fair) and you take shots
You better be a good photographer and have nice camera in the last two cases...
Florence
Le 04/03/15 21:38, Nkansah Rexford a écrit :
@bobby the issue of copyright on images can be very stretchy I most times don't fight about.
Photographer who took the celeb's picture. A funny scenario can be this:
I'm a celeb, at an occasion, I realized I looked awesome so I asked someone I dont know to use my phone take a quick shot of me.
I wanna put the image on Commons so I go look for that stranger and put his name on. Come on.
A similar instance is with these celebs. Some are photoshoots where the studio or photographer can be tracked. In many similar instances, it follows the scenario above. So who's the copyright owner?
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 20:34 bobby shabangu <bobbyshabangu@gmail.com mailto:bobbyshabangu@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the links Ian, I'm however still confused about the thousands of pictures used in Wikipedia from Flickr !! Do you know anything about that ?? Felix expect a follow up email from Theresa ( she'll be in contact with all the user groups as well) to find out how far they are with the recommendations/proporsals/decisions taken from the indaba. On 04.03.2015 21 <tel:04.03.2015%2021>:15, Nkansah Rexford wrote: Sorry Emmanuel, I didnt do English at school extensively, could you please rephrase this statement? "But, as a reminder: the owner of the copyright of a photography is the "photograph", not the subject who is photographed." You have written on Yann's talk page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yann#copyright_whatever "Those images were explicitly emailed to me from the celebs.", a sentence which sounds like an argument proving that this is OK for you to put them online on commons.wikimedia.org <http://commons.wikimedia.org>. But, in a normal case, the celebrity does not have any right on these pictures. The photograph who has shot the picture owns the copyright, not the celebrity. Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
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Flickr has a number of licences people can use when uploading images. Some of them are usable by Wikimedia Commons. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Upload/Flickr
On 04/03/2015 22:34, bobby shabangu wrote:
Thanks for the links Ian, I'm however still confused about the thousands of pictures used in Wikipedia from Flickr !! Do you know anything about that ??
On 04.03.2015 21:34, bobby shabangu wrote:
Thanks for the links Ian, I'm however still confused about the thousands of pictures used in Wikipedia from Flickr !! Do you know anything about that ??
Flickr proposes to choose a distribution license for the pictures you upload there. You can for example choose a free content license like CC-BY or CC-BY-SA. All the Commons pictures issued from Flickr are carefully reviewed and match this pattern.
Emmanuel
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