Hello,
some technical requests:
Experienced bot operators required! Bots are needed for automatic
archiving of at least the following:
* COM:VP
* COM:HD
* COM:AN (eventually)
* COM:DEL
It has been mentioned a couple of times that something like the
AutoWikiBrowser would be very useful for the Commons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser By some
measures, we are the third largest Wikimedia project over all (
http://s23.org/wikistats/wikimedias_html.php?sort=total_desc ), so you
know, it could help a lot of people. :) [well, if you sort by #images,
we're #1... :D]
So anyway, the moral of the story is, go and help patch up AWB to become an ACB.
cheers
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise
> > > And then there's the related case of photographs taken "under
> > > direction" (my camera, my idea, but you held it and pushed the button).
> > I guess such images are fair use if you never asked the person using
> > your camera to license the image.
> Hang on, hang on, wait a second. It is yours. I'm assuming you asked someone to
> take your picture, that person did so, and then handed the camera back to you.
> The understanding is obvious, by common practice. The "release" is given. No?
> Really, are we going just a bit overboard here?
So, would something like {{GFDL-self}} be used for this, or is a new
tag needed? Does Commons have any guidelines on this or is tagging
images you obviously didn't take yourself {{GFDL-self}} common
practice? (cc'ing commons-l)
Angela.
Hi!
I have not good feelings about several recent discussions on Deletion
requests: trademarks and PD-Soviet. Discussions are more like politics
where more important is number of supporters, not arguments of sides.
And they are more like pack vs. pack fights, since supporters opinions
are defined by project where they are participating.
Professional lawyer advice could resolve such conflicts. So may be
it's good idea to seek such advice in such cases?
Eugene.
PS
{{PD-Polish}} could become next hot topic.
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Hey Judson,
>
>Having them hosted on the commons had occurred to me as well. They
>are raw tiff's, still with the map border, etc. So it might be
>advantageous to make them easier to handle by a average wikipedia
>viewers.
>
>They are also about 300 GB in total. So if you think it makes sense
>for the commons to host them, I can arrange to mail a hard drive with
>the data.
>
>Thanks,
>-jared
I emailed Jared (the person that bought the maps) just to say that
there was interest in uploading them to commons, and he offered to
mail a hard drive with all the images! I was thinking we would
probably just grab them from the Archive, but I thought I would let
everyone know of this offer in case anyone wanted to do it that way.
It is a lot of data, and in tiff format.