Hoi.
I am talking to a few museums and archives and several of them are
interested in considering Commons for their collection. At the same time
they are also considering Flickr.
The issue they have with Commons is its restrictions. One of the museums
said it like this: "We have done our best to ascertain the copyright status
of much of our material. We have not been able to find the original
copyright holder or someone who inherited these rights. When we post our
material to Flickr, we just remove the material when a copyright holder
turns up and asks us to. Doing it in any other way requires much more
effort. Effort that we rather spend in more productive endeavours like
digitising and annotating."
My question is, will it be acceptable when a museum or archive provides us
with their material and when we learn about a request to take down material,
we do this when requested by the copyright holder. This is not considered
an issue with Flickr !!
Thanks,
GerardM
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/2009-March/002080.html
Promises much higher quality per bitrate, using exactly the same file format.
This is alpha, but if you're prepared to experiment we could get much
nicer video for the same file size.
- d.
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Cuba, please i like known news friends around the world. mail me to
following address:
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please in spanish or english languaje
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Cuba, me gustaria conocer nuevos amigos alrededor del mundo, si lo deseas
escribeme, prometo responder, mi direccionn es:
ramosrios(a)pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu
por favor preferiblemente en idioma español o si no en ingles
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Red Telematica de Salud - Cuba
CNICM - Infomed
hi, my name is anthony. i am 20 years old and studing general medicine in
Cuba, please i like known news friends around the world. mail me to
following address:
ramosrios(a)pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu
please in spanish or english languaje
thank you
hola, mi nombre es antonio, tengo 20 años y estudio medicina general en
Cuba, me gustaria conocer nuevos amigos alrededor del mundo, si lo deseas
escribeme, prometo responder, mi direccionn es:
ramosrios(a)pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu
por favor preferiblemente en idioma español o si no en ingles
gracias
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CNICM - Infomed
After a few weeks of bug fixes, we've caught up with MediaWiki
development code review and I'm pushing out an update to the live sites.
This fixes a lot of little bugs, and hopefully doesn't cause introduce
too many new ones. :)
* Change logs: http://ur1.ca/2rah (r47458 to r48811)
As usual in addition to lots of offline and individual testing among our
staff and volunteer developers, we've done a shakedown on
http://test.wikipedia.org/ -- and as usual we can fully expect a few
more issues to have cropped up that weren't already found.
Don't be alarmed if you do find a problem; just let us know at
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ or on the tech IRC channels
(#wikimedia-tech on Freenode).
We should be resuming our weekly update schedule soon -- I won't be
doing a mega-crosspost like this every week! -- and will continue to
improve our pre-update staging and shakedown testing to keep disruption
to a minimum and awesome improvements to a maximum.
I'd also like to announce that we've started a blog for Wikimedia tech
activity & MediaWiki development, in part because I want to make sure
community members can easily follow what we're working on and give
feedback before we push things out:
* http://techblog.wikimedia.org/
I'd very much like to make sure that we've got regular contacts among
the various project communities who can help coordinate with us on
features, bugs, and general thoughts which might affect some projects
distinctly from others.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
CTO, Wikimedia Foundation
San Francisco
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>> The original painting is certainly NOT public domain - but what about the
>> copyright status of a photograph that you or I might take of that
>> painting?
>> That is the question.
>
> You can't turn a copyrighted work into a free one by... *making a copy of
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> Once you put it like that, it seems quite simple :-) Unfortunately,
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I've enabled a test configuration of MediaWiki's upload-by-URL ability
on http://test.wikipedia.org/
The default configuration limits URL uploads to sysops, so for now
you’ll need to be a sysop on Test Wikipedia to try it out. If everything
seems fairly problem-free we’ll start rolling this out a bit more widely
for Commons and other sites.
In addition to being able to handle large files without an ugly manual
download+reupload, the upload-by-URL functionality is also needed for
future-facing work Michael Dale is working on to allow an on-wiki media
picker to fetch freely-licensed files from Flickr, Archive.org, and
other places.
We may want to consider improvements to UI and workflow, but it seems to
at least work. :)
More at the Wikimedia technical blog:
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/03/upload-by-url-for-testwikipediaorg/
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)