Hi,
Well, it doesn't go so easily. Some Commons admins refuse to accept the
community decision, and want to maintain the status quo inspite of the huge
majority of opinions for supporting this. They are usually the most vocal
and bold admins.
Some admins are supporting it, some are afraid to go against the bolder
ones. Some admins who support it do not take part because of language issue.
Some admins specifically said that they would go against the community, no
matter what. One admin even says that the
I am open for suggestions how to go forwards.
Regards,
Yann
2014-04-03 21:07 GMT+05:30 Yael Meron <yael(a)wikimedia.org.il>:
> After a discussion[1] in Commons regarding this subject, a decision was
> made, stating that URAA cannot be used as the sole reason for deletion.
>
> We consider this a good solution for this situation, considering there is
> currently no foreseeable change in US law, for example, to accept the "rule
> of the shorter term".
>
> Following our letter[1] and this decision, we would like to thank everyone
> who supported this, including the WMF BoT, the legal department
> (specifically Yana), WMES, WMAR, WMVE, the administrators in Commons and
> the participants in the discussion.
>
> Regards,
>
> Yael Meron
> Board of Wikimedia Israel
>
> [1]
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Massive_restoration_of_deleted_i…
> [2]
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Israel/Letter_to_the_BoT_regardin…
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Forwarding to commons-l.
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From: Yael Meron <yael(a)wikimedia.org.il>
Date: 3 April 2014 16:37
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] A decision in Commons regarding URAA affected files
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After a discussion[1] in Commons regarding this subject, a decision was
made, stating that URAA cannot be used as the sole reason for deletion.
We consider this a good solution for this situation, considering there is
currently no foreseeable change in US law, for example, to accept the "rule
of the shorter term".
Following our letter[1] and this decision, we would like to thank everyone
who supported this, including the WMF BoT, the legal department
(specifically Yana), WMES, WMAR, WMVE, the administrators in Commons and
the participants in the discussion.
Regards,
Yael Meron
Board of Wikimedia Israel
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Massive_restoration_of_deleted_i…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Israel/Letter_to_the_BoT_regardin…
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Forwarding to Commons - some lovely material in here.
Andrew.
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From: Charles Gregory <wmau.lists(a)chuq.net>
Date: 1 April 2014 05:17
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Over 20000 maps released as CC0 by NY Public Library
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>From the NYPL's blog - http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps
"The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division is very proud to announce
the release of more than 20,000 cartographic works as high resolution
downloads. We believe these maps have no known US copyright restrictions.
To the extent that some jurisdictions grant NYPL an additional copyright in
the digital reproductions of these maps, NYPL is distributing these images
under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The
maps can be viewed through the New York Public Library's Digital
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Charles / User:Chuq
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