On Dec 3, 2007 12:59 PM, drew Roberts <zotz(a)100jamz.com> wrote:
> OK, CC BY is not copyleft at all.
>
> CC BY-SA as it stands now is a weak copyleft (as we are speaking of weak here)
This is, however, a disputed point: CC-By-SA even includes examples of
new works which would be required to be cc-by-sa licensed, such as the
movie which results from adding images or video to a covered sound
recording.
>From by-sa-2.5: "'Derivative Work' means a work based upon the Work
or upon the Work and other pre-existing works, (...) or any other form
in which the Work may be recast, transformed, or adapted, except that
a work that constitutes a Collective Work will not be considered a
Derivative Work for the purpose of this License. For the avoidance of
doubt, where the Work is a musical composition or sound recording, the
synchronization of the Work in timed-relation with a moving image
("synching") will be considered a Derivative Work for the purpose of
this License."
When Creative Commons adopted the position that cc-by-sa covered
images do not enjoy the same protection as sound in situations where
it is synchronized with sound or text it was shocking and upsetting to
a number of people.
So while it's the whole weak/strong copyleft issue needs to be fleshed
out, I don't think it's fair to just state that cc-by-sa is currently
a weak copyleft, even if that is the intention of the licenses'
stewards with respect to visual works.
Hello,
The 2007 Commons POTY (Picture of the Year) competition will be held
in from 10 January to 24th. This is a call to translators to help
support this event.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2007/Translat…
This year we are using custom software created by user:Bryan on the
toolserver, because last year it was a small nightmare counting and
verifying votes via editing a wiki page. There are three main sets of
translation that we need:
* the software messages (about 30 sentences)
* informational pages on Commons about how the competition runs,
voting requirements and who to contact if there is a problem (minimum
3 pages, all pretty short)
* announcements that are sent to various mailing lists and village
pumps. (4 messages, quite short)
We especially need these languages:
Dutch
Polish
Italian
Japanese
Russian
Chinese
Swedish
Portuguese
Norwegian
Finnish
(French and Spanish are complete; German only needs the announcements
translated; Dutch, Russian and Swedish are partially complete.)
These are the languages of the top 15 Wikipedias - projects that have
over 100,000 articles.
We also need volunteers for *all* these languages who are interested
in being on the organising committee as "language contacts". See
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2007/Committee
for more info. It is a really simple commitment: you agree to help
anyone who speaks that language with any problems they have, in the
voting process. You also post the announcements to the various Village
Pumps and so on. You will still get to vote in the competition and you
DON'T have to actually translate anything (or vice versa), although
obviously it would be nice.
Even if you just translate one thing, it is a big help. The wiki way
is step by step :)
All you need to know is here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2007/Translat…
thankyou! please forward to other people you know who might be able to help.
cheers,
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise
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On 03/12/2007, Marco Chiesa <chiesa.marco(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> on the Italian Wikipedia left side bar there are two buttons: "Carica un
> file" and "Carica su Commons". The first one uploads the file on the
> Italian Wikipedia, the second one on Commons. So, if you click on that
> one, provided that you're logged on Commons, just follow the
> instructions and uploading should be straightforward.
Does this cause much newbie confusion? It sounds like a useful idea
for en:wp (which ideally should only have non-free images uploaded
directly to it). I'm wondering what issues show up.
(cc to commons-l)
- d.
On 02/12/2007, Benj. Mako Hill <mako(a)atdot.cc> wrote:
> Right. My understanding is that the resolution past by WMF is, itself,
> the request to the FSF to release a new draft of the license that allows
> WMF to migrate to the BY-SA immediately and that any conversation about
> whether the WMF will take advantage of that option to switch over will
> happen after. Others will be able to use WMF content under BY-SA
> regardless of any future decision WMF makes.
By the way - Larry Sanger has just emailed citizendium-l to say that
this means the CZ licence will not be GFDL (which they were only
considering for Wikipedia compatibility) - that it'll be CC-by-sa or
CC-by-nc-sa. Licence decision and explanation to come soon.
[preserving truly remarkable cc: list]
- d.
Obviously we have a problem out here.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Nov 30, 2007 4:39 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: #ifexist limit
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Please copy this to your local village pump or other relevant on-wiki forum.
Werdna's #ifexist limit feature is now live. In response to complaints of
template breakage, I have increased the limit on Wikimedia wikis
temporarily, from 100 to 2000. Barring a coup, it will stay at 2000 for
about a week, and then we'll lower it to 100.
Please use this one-week period to check pages and templates that use
#ifexist heavily. Look in the HTML source of the preview or page view.
There will be a "limit report" that looks like this:
<!--
Pre-expand include size: 617515/2048000 bytes
Post-expand include size: 360530/2048000 bytes
Template argument size: 51168/2048000 bytes
#ifexist count: 1887/2000
-->
This is the limit report from
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Potd/2007-12 ,
one of the pages that will break.
At the end of the week, any pages which have a #ifexist count of over 100
will cease to be rendered correctly (after the next edit or cache clear).
All #ifexist calls after the hundredth will be treated as if the target
does not exist.
In some cases it may be possible to rewrite your templates so that they
still do the same thing, but with less #ifexist calls. In other cases, you
will need to remove template features. Removing features is always sad, as
a sofware developer I know that, but sometimes it is necessary for the
good of the project. This is one of those times.
-- Tim Starling
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