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Karsten Gerloff has published his Master's Thesis on A2K under CC-BY-SA:
http://nearlyfreespeech.org/downloads/a2k.netsoc.pdf
Good background on the global battle for IP legislation, the relevance
of trade agreements like TRIPS, and the attempts to put the needs of
developing nations on the agenda of the UN's World Intellectual
Property Organization. The last two chapters describe the idea of an
Access to Knowledge Treaty.
Every Wikimedia Board candidate should have a basic understanding of
these topics, IMHO.
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Peace & Love,
Erik
The board election is coming up real soon, and it is good that people are
notified about that. However, I strongly disagree with the election notice
showing up on all English Wikipedia article pages.
I would believe it would be more appropriate for that notice to show up on
wathclists only, that way any established editor can see it. I think it is just
distracting on all article pages.
Comments?
Oleg Alexandrov
Hi,
what is the policy about the derivatives of the official Wikimedia
project logos? Their license template, [[commons:Template:Copyright by
Wikimedia]] does not make much sense: it refers to [[Wikimedia:Wikimedia
visual identity guidelines]], which is about the Foundation logo, not
the project logos. [[m:Uses of logo derivatives]], which is not finished
yet, says "We can, theoretically, allow derivative works of the logos
for informal uses, but it is not yet clear who should approve every
derivative version." I suppose this is about off-project uses -
requiring approval beyond community consensus for every derivative used
in a Wikimedia project would be a horrible bureaucracy creep.
Can I assume, when creating license templates to logo derivatives in the
Hungarian Wikipedia (which is my reason for asking this), that the final
policy will be something sensible, like permission to create
derivatives, provided they are only used in the Wikimedia projects, and
their copyright is transferred to the Foundation?
Tgr
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bylaws_update
It is still here.
Summary : we need to update the bylaws. On the page mentionned above, a
new text is proposed. Please comment.
This text, amongst other things, removes the notion of membership. If
you do not comment, nor propose another way to handle membership, the
Foundation will not legally have members. You will not be Foundation
members.
Another issue I think matters is making it even clearer what our mission
is. I think we all agree we are working so that our content stays
available to the largest number of people on earth. We aim at lowering
the barriers of language (in being multilingual) as well as financial
barriers. And we seek reusability as a dogma.
Right now, people can reuse our content in three ways.
They can use the dumps. Everyone has full access to the entire content;
it is not so easy to reuse though. And update are roughly once a month only.
Second, they can use the html dump. Everyone has full access to the
entire content; it is easier to reuse. Updates are very poor
(understatement)
Third, they can use live feeds. This requires cash (so, the barrier gets
higher). Update is by definition live.
Fourth, they can copy and paste page by page. This is free, live. But it
is a hell of a job.
I'd like us to consider the future. Not next month. Not even next
spring. But maybe in 2 or 3 years.
Do we want html dumps to be more frequent ?
Do we want regular dumps to be more frequent ?
Could it happen that all attempts to automatically "feed" on the content
may be blockable ? And that a requirement be made to "pay" to get the
content in a decent fashion ?
Doing dumps is currently free. But one may argue in the future that
dumps actually requires employee working time. And one might argue that
this cost money and that this service should require by default
financial participation.
If so, the license will be respected, since everyone will be able to
simply copy and paste content by hand, but will the *spirit* of sharing
information with the world be respected ? I think that as soon as we
start making people pay to get the content, it will not be since it will
put a barrier to access.
Another barrier still respecting the license would be to provide dumps
for free, but only for example, once a year.
I'd like that a note saying that global database content will always be
made available for free from internet.
For that purpose, I actually think that our current "purpose" and "goal"
as stated in the proposal, do not stress enough the "freedom" of
content, as opposed to the "free of charge access".
I fear a slipery slope here, which I think is already starting with the
concept of monetizing live feed.
I'd like some feedback on those thoughts please.
(with in mind that I do trust *entirely* current board members on such
issues, but do not necessarily trust those who might come in the
future). I am just trying to look ahead of potential dark pits.
The fact it is ahead does not mean it is less dangerous :-)
Anthere
I apologize if this ML is not the proper one for handling such cases.
Do we have any standard letter for someone using the Wikipedia logo in their site without any authorization?
A user reported this misuse (OTRS ticket #2006081710006508) at the site http://www.nafura.it/ - scroll down and the wiki-globe will appear on the left, linking to content which is not related anyway with wikipedia.
Thank you.
G. (aka Paginazero)
Hai,
This a sample document from wikipedia dump.
- <page>
<title>AlgeriA</title>
<id>5</id>
<revision>
<id>18063769</id>
<timestamp>2005-07-03T11:13:13Z</timestamp>
<contributor>
<username>Docu</username>
<id>8029</id>
</contributor>
<minor />
<comment>adding cur_id=5: {{R from CamelCase}}</comment>
<text xml:space="preserve">#REDIRECT [[Algeria]]{{R from CamelCase}}</text>
</revision>
</page>
I am not able understand two things
1. What does "revision" tags exactly mean ?
2. #REDIRECT [[Algeria]] ---> redirects to document with title Algeria.
Then what does "{{R from CamelCase}}" refer to.
regards,
Saikrishna.
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Remember Things can be difficult but not impossible
Hello,
It seems we have a shortage of help for election officials, at least for
august. Could someone give a hand to Aphaia and assist her ?
Thanks
Anthere