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From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 6 Mar 2008 20:40
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Another free encyclopedia:
Encyclopedia of the Cosmos
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On 3/6/08, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> As an aside, how is Wikipedia/GFDL and CC-by-SA coming along? Is
> Wikipedia waiting on GFDL and CC-by-SA to work out compatibility?
(CCing foundation-l, since folks there may be interested-)
Creative Commons is working actively with us on the "migration checklist":
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-December/035677.html
They are internally discussing a draft statement of intent, and
they've updated the CC frontpages to reference the Definition of Free
Cultural Works. Plus, at this point there is a consensus between our
two organizations that CC-BY-SA should function as a "strong copyleft"
license, just not yet about the best way to achieve that.
On the FSF side, we're waiting for a version of the GFDL that has the
migration language in it; hopefully this will be approved soon.
So, things are progressing. Given that there are multiple
organizations involved, plus a commitment from us to only make the
final step after consultation with the community, it's a complex
process, but I'll hope we'll get there soon enough -- the
incompatibility between CC-BY-SA and GFDL is a serious impediment for
the free culture movement.
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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hey -
you may remember that a while ago, we asked for community submissions on:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stillman_Wiki_Wall_Photo_Contest
There was a pretty, light-up photo wall in our San Francisco office
space when we moved in (the previous tenant was a designer), so it was
only natural for us to use it to feature photos taken of and by
members of the community. We picked 9 of the submissions and put them
on our wall:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_Stillman_Contest_Wall_1.j…
This is still missing the little labels attributing the photographers
and describing the content - those will follow shortly, and I hope we
can get away with fair use until then ;-). But I can tell you, it
really makes the pictures look quite amazing. It's the kind of low
cost effort that really creates a "Wikipedian" atmosphere.
We also have a big corkboard on our kitchen wall that has dozens of
photos from Wikimedia events on it - it's really quite lovely. :-)
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
