"Does Copyright Affect Creative Reuse? Evidence from the Digitization
of Baseball Digest", Nagaraj
2013 (draft) http://web.mit.edu/nagaraj/files/copyright_nagaraj.pdf
> While copyright governs the distribution of creative content in industries like publishing and computer software, its impact on creative reuse has largely evaded empirical analysis. I use the digitization of both copyrighted and non-copyrighted issues of one publication, Baseball Digest, to measure the impact of copyright on a prominent venue for reuse: Wikipedia. While the overall impact of digitization on reuse is positive, copyright hurts both the extent of reuse and the level of internet traffic to affected Wikipedia pages. The impact of copyright is more pronounced for images compared to text and becomes economically significant only post-digitization.
http://abhishek.mit.edu/
You may remember discussion of the work way back in July 2012:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/mit-economist-heres-h…
The actual paper was only posted recently.
--
gwern
http://www.gwern.net
Hi all,
I have successfully set up a local wikipedia instance using the English
data dumps, but I cannot seem to find a copy of the MediaWiki translation
files in use on the Wikipedia sites. As a result, tags like
"wm-license-information-description" are not displayed correctly.
Is there a place I can download the Wikipedia-modified system message
files (languages/messages/MessagesEn.php,
languages/messages/MessagesQqq.php, etc.)?
Thanks!
Tim
On Nov 12, 2013 10:07 PM, "Matt" <matt at pagan.io> wrote:
>>
>> Hi James,
>> Thanks for responding. I apologize if this mailing list is the wrong
>> place for this, but I'm having trouble with the English Wikipedia
>> Unblock Ticket Request System. I submitted an unblock request, which
>> was accpeted, but now I'm having trouble with the email confirmation.
>> When I copy into my browser the link I received from the automated
>> email response, I face the following message:
>>
>> The action you requested could not be performed: Please use the link
>> provided to you in your email to access this page. This security step
>> assures us that we are still talking to the same person. Thank you.
>>
>> I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions on how to proceed from here.
>> It would make me quite sad if my unblock request was not looked at
>> becuase I could not get past the email confirmation link.
>
> At the moment utrs is transferring from the toolserver to labs. That
> shouldn't make a difference, but maybe it did. Could you try
> requesting a new confirmation link by opening a new ticket on utrs?
> If it fails again, feel free to come back to this list.
Thanks Martijn:
I just submitted my unblock request a second time and received the same
error message when I followed the link in my email:
The action you requested could not be performed: Please use the link
provided to you in your email to access this page. This security step
assures us that we are still talking to the same person. Thank you.
P.S.: I tried not to break the thread this time. Hopefully it worked.
Matt Pagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Futuristcorporation
Hi James,
Thanks for responding. I apologize if this mailing list is the wrong
place for this, but I'm having trouble with the English Wikipedia
Unblock Ticket Request System. I submitted an unblock request, which
was accpeted, but now I'm having trouble with the email confirmation.
When I copy into my browser the link I received from the automated email
response, I face the following message:
The action you requested could not be performed: Please use the link
provided to you in your email to access this page. This security step
assures us that we are still talking to the same person. Thank you.
I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions on how to proceed from here. It
would make me quite sad if my unblock request was not looked at
becuase I could not get past the email confirmation link.
> Thanks Matt, it looks like someone got it before I could. I imagine
> you know already but, just in case, if you find yourself wanting to
> edit
> frequently from tor you may want to consider asking for
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_block_exemption on your
> account. Not the simplest for sure but may life easier so you don't
> have to worry about it.
>
> James
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Matt <matt at pagan.io> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> > I wanted to point out a single instance of vandalism on the
> > following
> > page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Gris
> >
> > The infobox contains the following line:
> >
> > | awards = he married 4 potatoes
> >
> > The last recorded instance of this page that doesn't contain this
> > vandalism had the following line instead:
> >
> > | awards =
> >
> > I would have fixed this myself, but I use Tor, so I am unable to do
> > so. Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Matt Pagan
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Futuristcorporation
> >
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> > WikiEN-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
> >
Hi!
I wanted to point out a single instance of vandalism on the following
page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Gris
The infobox contains the following line:
| awards = he married 4 potatoes
The last recorded instance of this page that doesn't contain this
vandalism had the following line instead:
| awards =
I would have fixed this myself, but I use Tor, so I am unable to do so.
Thanks.
Matt Pagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Futuristcorporation
Nathan, it's a pity you've decided to smear me on a public list without even informing me. I was alerted to this by an existing subscriber and have since subscribed myself so that I can respond.
Almost every sentence you've written needs rebutting.
First, "takedown" and "aggressive" are your characterisations. The entire story is factual but for four sentences. Here are the possibly subjective ones:
*"It is an open question whether these warnings actually function to caution travellers' behaviour beyond providing eligibility for inclusion under the policies."
*"Another issue raised by the material is its potential to be perceived as treating women with a casual objectification".
*"And just as central to the site's use of the Wikimedia Foundation's trademark and brand reputation is its ability to monitor commercial spamming."
*"Yet given the poverty of the competition, there appear to be many opportunities for Wikivoyage to boost its presence in the crowded market for online travel advice."
Second, "e-mailed quotes were manipulated and pulled out of context". No, the source was emailed the link to the draft more than 12 hours ahead of publication, by agreement. There was no distortion of the message in my copy-edits and conflation; we don't have boundless room, and sources are warned that their text may be trimmed or rationalised, usually with their review before publication (sources often send bloated response to queries). So please get your facts right.
Third, I don't regard Ryan Holliday's trigger-happy blocks (issued to silence anyone who criticises or suggests reforms to the site = "uncivil") as placing me in an ethically difficult position. Please note that the story is a direct continuation of my coverage of the sex-tourism policy back in January – one that was planned at the time, given that the site had only just migrated. It is the fourth in a sequence of stories I have written for the Signpost about Wikivoyage over 15 months. Perhaps Holliday might have considered that I have a history of covering Wikivoyage in the public interest before meeting out another of his gratuitous punishment blocks; but this story was going to happen anyway. Any potential perception of COI was, in fact, why I went to considerable trouble to keep the article almost entirely factual.
I'm sorry that you've joined in the bullying, Nathan: I thought better of you than to indulge in misleading statements. The purpose of the bullying is to deflect people from discussing the substance of the article. After calling me "a jerk" and "a dick" multiple times, the Wikivoyage boys seem to have decided not to engage in discussion for evolving the site. You are helping them in their intransigence.
Tony
From: Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:17 PM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Signpost and basic journalistic integrity
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
There's a heated debate in the comment section of the Signpost's latest
"News and notes". Tony1 wrote a takedown of the English Wikivoyage in
pretty inflammatory language, but as a news story rather than as part of
the Signpost's foray into opinion.
Not surprisingly, the Wikivoyage folks have made various serious claims
about the article - that e-mailed quotes were manipulated and pulled out of
context, that content from Wikivoyage was presented in a false light, that
the column was illustrated with images that have never actually appeared on
Wikivoyage and that Tony1 himself has a very strong bias against Wikivoyage.
It's the last bit that is the most serious to me. A month ago, a discussion
to ban Tony1 from Wikivoyage (which ultimately resulted in his ban) was
proposed. Tony1's response:
"*Right, you'll never see me again. (Oh, you'll see me, but it won't be
on this site.) It is morally reprehensible, and demonstrates a clear
strategy to get rid of critical voices—anyone who dares to stand up to the
boys' club here. From now on, I'll be deeply committed to letting
Wikimedians know what a corrupt and bullying power structure has developed
here. This is so dysfunctional it is laughable."*
This is a major departure from the traditional tone and approach of the
Signpost and it's editors, and it's kind of sad. Whatever you think of the
article debate itself (and there is more than one way to look at it), the
fact that the piece was published that way - in the voice of the Signpost,
without reference to Tony1's history, etc. - is a disappointing ethical
lapse.
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There's a heated debate in the comment section of the Signpost's latest
"News and notes". Tony1 wrote a takedown of the English Wikivoyage in
pretty inflammatory language, but as a news story rather than as part of
the Signpost's foray into opinion.
Not surprisingly, the Wikivoyage folks have made various serious claims
about the article - that e-mailed quotes were manipulated and pulled out of
context, that content from Wikivoyage was presented in a false light, that
the column was illustrated with images that have never actually appeared on
Wikivoyage and that Tony1 himself has a very strong bias against Wikivoyage.
It's the last bit that is the most serious to me. A month ago, a discussion
to ban Tony1 from Wikivoyage (which ultimately resulted in his ban) was
proposed. Tony1's response:
"*Right, you'll never see me again. (Oh, you'll see me, but it won't be
on this site.) It is morally reprehensible, and demonstrates a clear
strategy to get rid of critical voices—anyone who dares to stand up to the
boys' club here. From now on, I'll be deeply committed to letting
Wikimedians know what a corrupt and bullying power structure has developed
here. This is so dysfunctional it is laughable."*
This is a major departure from the traditional tone and approach of the
Signpost and it's editors, and it's kind of sad. Whatever you think of the
article debate itself (and there is more than one way to look at it), the
fact that the piece was published that way - in the voice of the Signpost,
without reference to Tony1's history, etc. - is a disappointing ethical
lapse.
http://www.nxp.com/documents/outline_drawing/sod523_po.pdf
as the matter of the incredibly fascist actions of certain editors was
not resolved and the completely pointless addition of my proxy's IP
address is still in effect, i am not prepared to make *any* edits
which would result in my identity being revealed to them.
therefore, someone else will need to update the link above to the
correct location.
i leave it in your capable hands.
l.