Dear Commons User,
The election of the best Featured Picture of 2006 - POTY 2006 - is to take
place soon in Commons.
We need your opinion and help to organize and implement the event. There are
still a lot of things to do, like deciding the dates, tuning the rules,
preparing the project page, making the announcements, etc.
To participate, please check Commons talk:Picture of the Year/2006.
Joaquim Gaspar (User:Alvesgaspar)
This is interesting when British governmental information may become
more public. While I support pursuing with the UK government, I also
consider it needed to pursue with the USA government to accept the
rule of the shorter term.
Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain#The_rule_of_the_shorte…
and you will find that without honoring the rule of the shorter term
of the Berne Convention in the US Copyright Law, certain works may be
in the public domain in their home countries, but still considered
legally copyrighted in the USA. This is harming the Wiki projects
unless the server can ever be moved to a jurisdiction honoring the
rule of the shorter term like Macao, but the Foundation has no such a
plan.
How about using http://www.petitiononline.com/ to pursue reclaiming
the public domain? I would like to strongly encourage everyone to sign
the following petitions involving copyright and public domain:
http://www.petitiononline.com/eldred/petition.html Reclaim the Public Domain
http://www.petitiononline.com/mrap/petition.html M.R.A. Platform
http://www.petitiononline.com/ukpod001/petition.html Podcasters'
Rights and the WIPO Broadcast Treaty
http://www.petitiononline.com/oldgame/petition.html Abandonware
Jusjih, an admin at Commons, Wikisource, Wiktionary, and Wikipedia
uncomfortable with excessive copyright blocking orphaned works
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Neil Harris <usenet(a)tonal.clara.co.uk>
> Date: Jan 12, 2007 6:49 PM
> Subject: [Foundation-l] UK government information changes on the way?
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
> Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> The BBC is carrying an interesting story on possible changes in the
> attitude of the UK government to the free use of government information.
> At the moment, the Statute Law Database is Crown Copyright, as is nearly
> all UK government information, with a commercial licence needed for any
> use other than private study or non-commercial research.
>
> According to the BBC, this may be about to change, and the changes may
> be part of a wider change in attitude to the free reuse of government data.
>
> Is this something that the Foundation or other interested Wikipedians
> might be interested in pursuing with the UK government?
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6255321.stm
>
> -- Neil
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From: Neil Harris <usenet(a)tonal.clara.co.uk>
Date: Jan 12, 2007 6:49 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] UK government information changes on the way?
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
The BBC is carrying an interesting story on possible changes in the
attitude of the UK government to the free use of government information.
At the moment, the Statute Law Database is Crown Copyright, as is nearly
all UK government information, with a commercial licence needed for any
use other than private study or non-commercial research.
According to the BBC, this may be about to change, and the changes may
be part of a wider change in attitude to the free reuse of government data.
Is this something that the Foundation or other interested Wikipedians
might be interested in pursuing with the UK government?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6255321.stm
-- Neil
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Please throw your suggestions on how the current
template translation could be better. Take
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:GFDL . One
click should show the GFDL message in the desired
language, without bringing out a whole new page.
Ideally, the template message should change to show
whatever language the image in included into;
{{GFDL/es}} for Spanish Wikipedia, etc. Is it
possible? Or does it require complicated changes to
MediaWiki?
Are there other ways to improve this template
situation?
/ Fredrik
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I just edited the bit on GPL/LGPL. I took out two paragraphs about how
authors should license their works (since this is the FAQ for outside
*reusers*) and rewrote the rest as follows:
====
GNU GPL and LGPL
The GNU General Public License (GPL) and Lesser General Public License
(LGPL) are computer software licenses and are not usually used for
text or media. However, some content on Commons (e.g. icons or
screenshots from computer programs) is under the GPL or LGPL.
For simple redistribution of such material, including altered
versions, (a) release your version under the same license (b) supply
the source version, i.e. something as editable as what you started
with (e.g. image file, GIMP .xcf file, etc.).
Note that the GNU General Public License (GPL) and the GNU Free
Document License (GFDL) are not compatible with each other. That means
that content licensed under the GFDL as well as content licensed under
the GPL can't be used together simultaneously in the same "work" —
e.g. GPL computer program source embedded in GFDL explicatory text.
However, a GPL image in a GFDL text page is usually regarded as an
aggregation of two works rather than a single work.
====
Could the professionally legally querulous please comment on this?
It's grossly simplified, but is it likely to mislead?
- d.
On 11/01/07, Husky <huskyr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> You're right abut that, but we do we have a similar page on the Dutch
> Wikipedia:
> http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Beleid_voor_gebruik_van_media
> (literally translated: Policies on the use of media)
> It's basically just a short introduction to the most important rules (every
> image on Wikipedia should be allowed to distribute, copy, modify, even for
> commercial purposes) and a few 'Frequently Asked Questions'. I might
> translate this someday to English, it might be a nice addition to
> Commons:Licensing.
Do you have a Dutch-language equivalent of the reuse how-to?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reuse
(The English-language version now appears almost useful.)
- d.
I agree.
Laleena
---- Original Message ----
From: bastique(a)bellsouth.net
To: commons-l(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Anglo-Saxonisation of the commons
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:16:03 -0500
>It must have been a mental infarction. Galleries are done using
>native
>language and redirects. Categories have generally been done in
>English.
>
>~~~~ (Cary)
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: commons-l-bounces(a)wikimedia.org
>> [mailto:commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Brianna
>Laugher
>> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 7:43 PM
>> To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
>> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Anglo-Saxonisation of the commons
>>
>>
>> On 02/01/07, Cary Bass <bastique(a)bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> > I am fairly certain that the policy on Commons is that cities and
>other
>> > localities are in the native language. Therefore München and
>Praha are
>> > absolutely correct and the categories must be fixed.
>>
>> No...
>> did you ever notice [[category:??]] ? (or even worse, maybe
>> [[category:transport in ??]]?)
>>
>> Nobody likes enforcing English-only categories to further
>Anglo-saxon
>> supremism or the like, but until we have proper category
>redirects...
>>
>> regards,
>> Brianna
>> user:pfctdayelise
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http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/
This is free as in beer, not speech, but may be useful to some of our
budding illustrators. Inkscape itself is an open source vector
graphics editor that is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
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