Hi there,
I just wanted to tell you that de:user:dapete has developed a tool to see
how a specific category relates to the main category.
Check it out at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/catgraph/ and use the wiki
commonswiki
Best regards,
Flo
On 08/04/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> This is just what came into my head in ten minutes. There is tons of
> interesting stuff that could be done. Please do some if intend to come
> to Wikimania :]
I don't, sadly :-) but it's also interesting for Commons press releases.
Here's a somewhat-related question: I have ideas for press releases to
drag the general public to Commons at a *fantastic* rate. But do we
want that?
+ more good stuff under free licenses
+ awareness as a separate project
- 10% copyvio rate as is; need more copyright paranoid admins ready to
just go through crap allll the tiiiime
- search still sucks
- Commons is not Flickr - will people try to use it as their personal gallery?
- what to do when people who don't quite get it realise what they've
done (e.g. released pictures of selves or kids under a free content
licence) and want to change their mind?
- stratospheric bandwidth bills. You think it's bad now.
More pluses and minuses please.
I still think Wikipedia got way too popular way too quickly and I
would be much happier if it were a Top 100 site rather than a Top 10
site. It would also be cheaper in bandwidth.
- d.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Fastfission <fastfission(a)gmail.com>
Date: 02-Apr-2007 20:40
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Cool tool that lets you check for copyright
renewals on books
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
This is a new, neat tool that helps you find whether certain US
published books are out of copyright even if they are published after
1923. As most copyright savvy people know, there was a period of time
after that in which copyrights had to be officially renewed to stay
valid, meaning that a lot of works published after that time are
officially in the public domain in the United States. But these are
hard to find, since renewal notices are hard to peruse and in many
cases not machine-searchable at all.
But no longer! Stanford has created a Copyright Renewal Database,
making it quite easy to check if any book published first in the U.S.
between 1923 and 1963 are in the public domain. It could potentially
clear up copyright ambiguities for certain things taken from these
works.
http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/
FF
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I'm sure Wikimedians have some *marvellous* ideas for this one. You
have two weeks!
- d.
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From: Jonathan Roberts <jonathan.roberts.uk(a)googlemail.com>
Date: 10-Apr-2007 08:21
Subject: [ORG-discuss] Fwd: [FC-discuss] Question WIPO: "Encouraging
Creativity: Are We?"
To: ORG-discuss(a)lists.openrightsgroup.org
This came through to me from the Freeculture.org mailing list, thought
you might be interested: (Hi, btw!)
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April 26, 2007 is World Intellectual Property Day, as declared by our
friends at WIPO. The theme for 2007 is "Encouraging Creativity" --
http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/world_ip/2007/index.html
I encourage all free culture advocates to organize activities in
proximity to IP Day with the theme: "Encouraging Creativity: Are We?"
Rather than a self-congratulatory pat on the back, modern intellectual
property regimes deserve critical examination -- and, some argue, a kick
in the ass. This crucial public policy issue should invite tempered
deliberation and public participation, not grandstanding and finger-wagging.
If you have a local CopyNight meet-up in your town, this would be a
great theme for April. (Most CopyNights meet on the 4th Tuesday of the
month, which would be April 24, just two days before IP Day.)
If not, you could organize some other event -- or just get together with
a group of friends at your favorite bar or cafe.
Don't forget: WIPO says, "Member States and organizations are encouraged
to send brief reports of the events and activities organized in their
country to celebrate World IP Day." So be sure to send them an
announcement of your event. I'm sure they'll be thrilled to hear.
Rabble-rousingly,
Gavin
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Nice chat with someone from FourDocs
(http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/) yesterday, about freeing content
or at least making it a useful resource for our projects.
"We'd love our stuff on Wikipedia. It's all Creative Commons!" They've
released a pile of documentaries under CC by-nc-nd, which is about as
paralysingly unfree as you can get and still tag it CC. We talked
about really-free-content licences - where you can take something and
reuse and remix it, and even make money off the result, without prior
permission - and how scary they are to those who've spent years
learning the ridiculous twists and turns needed to clear a piece of
footage for a single with-permission use.
That FourDocs could even manage CC-by-nc-nd with streaming only (not
downloadable files) was remarkable given the state of movie copyright.
Even the BBC, which is all about the content, has about half the staff
keen to release everything freely and widely and the other half
horrified at the idea.
Today's question: what the hell can we do to come up with something
big content producers will feel able to release under an actually free
licence? Something they can feel safe to relax control on? If we can
get one, we can get more. What can we do to get that first one?
(Thanks for not much to Creative Commons for making some versions of
CC by-sa 3.0 - not all, just some - not actually free licenses, with
onerous codification of moral rights that are default anyway in the
countries affected. Well done. And then you have wikis using licenses
like by-nc-nd that are nonsensical in a wiki context - thinking a No
Derivatives license doesn't contradict the whole idea of text anyone
can edit, because it's Creative Commons. Stallman was right again.)
- d.
I'm (re)sending this to lots of lists -- people, we need more
submissions! Please be bold in sending us your papers -- we'd love to
see you in Taiwan this year. :-)
Please forward to other relevant lists as well! See
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation/distribution
for the ones we've already covered.
Erik
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>From a message Erik posted to mediawiki-l (
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2007-March/018708.html
):
There's a first demo impl of InstantCommons up at:
http://141.13.22.239/ic-client/index.php/Main_Page
What this does: Allows any MediaWiki installation to transparently
load (and cache) images from a central repository like Commons,
provided the repository permits it. Ideally, Wikimedia Commons will do
so, and any installation in the world will be able to use files from
Commons as if they were locally uploaded.
The current code is in the instantcommons branch. There are still a
few issues and it's not feature-complete yet before it can go to the
official review.
===============
(note: it's not working on Commons, but a fake Commons)
It doesn't seem to create a log entry for the 'borrowed' images, but
still creates image page s for them (but doesn't link to the source in
any way, which is a bit weird).
probably wiki admins would like to know which images have been 'borrowed'.
No idea why Erik didn't post here as well, as if we're not interested :)
cheers
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise
I've started the following page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Toolset
to collect a list of open source tools & open formats that are
commonly used to support Wikimedia projects. Mainly, this is for
external tools, rather than those developed within our community,
though I don't mind if it is expanded to cover both.
The purpose of having this page is to better inform decision-making
processes on all levels:
* directing volunteers who want to help us to work on particularly
useful open source projects
* directing editors to tools that help them with their day-to-day work
* possibly, even (when the Foundation is a bit more sustainable)
considering awarding development grants to some of them, or at least
helping them to pursue them by endorsing their grant proposals to
other organizations
* identifying key "missing pieces" that are not covered or not covered
well by the existing toolset (this might be a separate list).
I know many of you use specialized tools that are not well known.
There are also sure to be glaring omissions in the current list. I
would therefore appreciate all help to complete it.
--
Peace & Love,
Erik
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