On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:48 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Webcomic_xkcd_-_Wikipedian_proteste… Interesting. The first image doesn't have an OTRS ticket and there's a Spanish version of the second image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Agitador_wikipedista.png And I did smile when I read his comment about the Article issues template on his biographical article. ...*And* while starting my search to improve the references on the [[Randall Munroe]] article, I was amazed to find that our own two Wikipedia articles actually have a higher Google rank than the comic itself does! Someone should probably drop him a line about getting OTRS tickets for "Agitador wikipedista" and "philosophy". -- Elias Friedman A.S., EMT-P elipongo(a)gmail.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Elipongo

2008/9/25 Elias Friedman <elipongo(a)gmail.com>om>: Why? The former doesn't need his authorisation if it's a derivative of his work, so long as we're clear the original was freely licensed; the latter, well, we seem to have accepted the correlation between RM and the original uploader, so an OTRS permission would be excessive.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner(a)gmail.com Not at all. This is a creative professional and this is his property. Just like I wouldn't borrow your lawnmower without asking, we should have the same courtesy about his cartoons.

I wonder if XKCD comics might have a good place in the Wikipedia Signpost.

2008/9/25 Elias Friedman <elipongo(a)gmail.com>om>: Why? The former doesn't need his authorisation if it's a derivative of his work, so long as we're clear the original was freely licensed; the latter, well, we seem to have accepted the correlation between RM and the original uploader, so an OTRS permission would be excessive.