Hi,
I may just fall entirely out of the spot, but... is there a group of people working on a press release for the 1000000 of commons ?
I looked around a bit and found only this *http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9dia_France/Communique_sur_le_milli... (in french, from the french association) *http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_logo_mosaic/ConstructionNotes (this gorgious new logo)
When is thd 1M expected ?
ant
Oh my goodness... I can just see it... people uploading images just to have the 1000000th. One out of two images will be copyrighted...
Oh, the inhumanity!
/me is very afraid of a press release announcing this :)
Cary Bass
-----Original Message----- From: commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Anthere Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 7:01 PM To: commons-l@wikimedia.org Subject: [Commons-l] press release
Hi,
I may just fall entirely out of the spot, but... is there a group of people working on a press release for the 1000000 of commons ?
I looked around a bit and found only this *http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9dia_France/Communique_sur_le _million_de_Commons (in french, from the french association) *http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_logo_mosaic/Construct ionNotes (this gorgious new logo)
When is thd 1M expected ?
ant
Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
A press release announces things after they occurred. Not before.
I would say that when people work on something great, it is cool to announce a big milestone. But of course, if no one is interested, there will be no press release.
Ant
Cary Bass wrote:
Oh my goodness... I can just see it... people uploading images just to have the 1000000th. One out of two images will be copyrighted...
Oh, the inhumanity!
/me is very afraid of a press release announcing this :)
Cary Bass
-----Original Message----- From: commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Anthere Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 7:01 PM To: commons-l@wikimedia.org Subject: [Commons-l] press release
Hi,
I may just fall entirely out of the spot, but... is there a group of people working on a press release for the 1000000 of commons ?
I looked around a bit and found only this *http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9dia_France/Communique_sur_le _million_de_Commons (in french, from the french association) *http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_logo_mosaic/Construct ionNotes (this gorgious new logo)
When is thd 1M expected ?
ant
Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
On 14/11/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
A press release announces things after they occurred. Not before.
I would say that when people work on something great, it is cool to announce a big milestone. But of course, if no one is interested, there will be no press release.
Ant
I will try and start something today... I did email comcom about it some weeks ago, but got no discernible reply (what with it being a closed list, and all)... are the WMF contact point for this?
Brianna user:pfctdayelise
I meant, are you (Anthere) the WMF contact point for this?
On 14/11/06, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 14/11/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
A press release announces things after they occurred. Not before.
I would say that when people work on something great, it is cool to announce a big milestone. But of course, if no one is interested, there will be no press release.
Ant
I will try and start something today... I did email comcom about it some weeks ago, but got no discernible reply (what with it being a closed list, and all)... are the WMF contact point for this?
Brianna user:pfctdayelise
Errrr. No Just interested :-)
For "models", see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_release
And may I give you a hug for starting this ?
ant
Brianna Laugher wrote:
I meant, are you (Anthere) the WMF contact point for this?
On 14/11/06, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 14/11/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
A press release announces things after they occurred. Not before.
I would say that when people work on something great, it is cool to announce a big milestone. But of course, if no one is interested, there will be no press release.
Ant
I will try and start something today... I did email comcom about it some weeks ago, but got no discernible reply (what with it being a closed list, and all)... are the WMF contact point for this?
Brianna user:pfctdayelise
On 11/14/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
*http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_logo_mosaic/ConstructionNotes (this gorgious new logo)
For once a great, useful and imaginative derivative of the Wikimedia logo. As we say in French, chapeau ! (hat down?) to whoever had the idea.
Delphine
Hats off! Rob Silvers, eat your heart out. At least in this version of the WMF logo, you can't see the asymmetry.
SJ
On 11/14/06, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/14/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
*http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_logo_mosaic/ConstructionNotes (this gorgious new logo)
For once a great, useful and imaginative derivative of the Wikimedia logo. As we say in French, chapeau ! (hat down?) to whoever had the idea.
Delphine
~notafish NB. This address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
On 11/14/06, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
Hats off! Rob Silvers, eat your heart out. At least in this version of the WMF logo, you can't see the asymmetry.
/me can't help but chuckle.
Delphine
Just to keep everyone up-to-date, User:Pfctdayelise has started the press release at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/1M .
On 11/13/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
*http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_logo_mosaic/ConstructionNotes (this gorgious new logo)
Doesn't that violate the copyright of the logo?
Anthony
Anthony wrote:
On 11/13/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
*http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_logo_mosaic/ConstructionNotes (this gorgious new logo)
Doesn't that violate the copyright of the logo?
Anthony
fr: Dans sa grande mansuétude, la Fondation autorise l'usage de ce dérivé...
en: authorized for non commercial uses...
ant
On 11/14/06, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Anthony wrote:
On 11/13/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
*http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_logo_mosaic/ConstructionNotes (this gorgious new logo)
Doesn't that violate the copyright of the logo?
Anthony
fr: Dans sa grande mansuétude, la Fondation autorise l'usage de ce dérivé...
en: authorized for non commercial uses...
ant
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:WikimediaMosaicCapture.png
When I first wrote this it said GFDL. Now it says "Original logo copyright Wikimedia Foundation. This picture is made of the hundreds of free licenses of the images used to make it. Screenshot under the GFDL (?)"
Which is a big contradiction. The logo is not under a free license, so a derivative of it can't be under the GFDL. And many of the images are under copyleft licenses, so derivatives can't be under a non-commercial license.
Yeah, yeah, it's such a small deal, who cares... Considering the nature of this project the answer should be "we do".
Anthony
On 11/14/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
When I first wrote this it said GFDL. Now it says "Original logo copyright Wikimedia Foundation. This picture is made of the hundreds of free licenses of the images used to make it. Screenshot under the GFDL (?)"
Which is a big contradiction. The logo is not under a free license, so a derivative of it can't be under the GFDL. And many of the images are under copyleft licenses, so derivatives can't be under a non-commercial license.
Yeah, yeah, it's such a small deal, who cares... Considering the nature of this project the answer should be "we do".
Anthony
this is the reason I've been removing wikimedia logos from wikipedia whenever I run across them. The downside is that example.jpg is apparently no longer culturally neutral and I'm worried that an edit war is going to start on [[logo]]
On 11/14/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 11/14/06, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Anthony wrote:
On 11/13/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
*http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_logo_mosaic/ConstructionNotes (this gorgious new logo)
Doesn't that violate the copyright of the logo?
Anthony
fr: Dans sa grande mansuétude, la Fondation autorise l'usage de ce dérivé...
en: authorized for non commercial uses...
ant
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:WikimediaMosaicCapture.png
When I first wrote this it said GFDL. Now it says "Original logo copyright Wikimedia Foundation. This picture is made of the hundreds of free licenses of the images used to make it. Screenshot under the GFDL (?)"
Which is a big contradiction. The logo is not under a free license, so a derivative of it can't be under the GFDL. And many of the images are under copyleft licenses, so derivatives can't be under a non-commercial license.
Yeah, yeah, it's such a small deal, who cares... Considering the nature of this project the answer should be "we do".
I am the one who changed it. There is no *right* license for that "thing". The screen shot is what it is, ie. a screenshot, so no GFDL applies. If anything, it's a Foundation copyright (to the screen shot) or actually, probably a fair use, under the label "tribute" or some such thing.
The live mosaic, however, is "live" and happens to be a bunch of pictures under free licenses patched together on a page to form the Wikimedia logo. So you can't apply a "Foundation" copyright to something that's made of hundreds of different licenses. The pictures in the "live mosaic" are independant from each other, so there's no reason why they should not keep their licences.
Hence the somewhat puzzled licensing information *I* put on that page.
Delphine
I have made a start, but I have never written a press release before and I have no idea what makes a good one. What angles would you like to push? Do you have a "model" I could look at? Who do you send it to? What aspects might they be interested in? Do you fax it to them or send them the link? [so, can I include images?] Is anyone realistically going to pick this up or should I just blather about things of interest to me? ;)
thanks, Brianna