Gerard writes:
> When I talked to the Tropenmuseum about licensing their material, I asked
> Mike Godwin about this and I put this scenario explicitly to him. Material
> is licensed by a copyright holder, he can do it repeatedly in different
> ways
> for different levels of quality.
>
As I read this, Gerard represents my view accurately. It's important to
remember that one aspect of (most) free licenses is that the original
licensor retains many rights with regard to the copyrighted work. Granting
multiple licenses to facilitate re-use in different contexts -- or different
media -- seems to me to be one solution to the problem that Birgitte raises,
which is that copyright is an area of law that treats very different media
as if they were the same (it's a "kludge," all right), which means there are
almost always going to be edge cases (statues, architectural plans, etc.) in
which meeting the explicit requirements of a particular free license (such
as CC-BY-SA) is going to be tricky.
That said, the efforts of Creative Commons to try to standardize on basic
licensing language have done very much to make free culture freer -- by
giving creators and licensors easier ways to talk about what kinds of rights
they are trying to grant, and by increasing "interoperability" among freely
licensed works.
--Mike
In a message dated 2/22/2011 10:16:25 PM Pacific Standard Time,
sjklein(a)hcs.harvard.edu writes:
> There's a shortage of core developers. There are quite a lot of PHP
> developers who have built some sort of MediaWiki extension, or
> otherwise hacked on it to make their own fork, however. We have some
> opportunities here to recruit more of them as well -- some way of
> encouraging each downloader to get involved, or one-click sharing of
> their local hacks with a global community? I'm not sure; but this is
> certainly another case of "how can we embrace people who take the
> first step to join us" worth solving.
>
AdSense Integration.
The ability for a MediaWiki install (retroactive to earlier releases) to
stick Adsense ads in where they want.
We have heard a great deal lately about a "gender gap". Is there really a
gender gap? With 93% of editor not marking there gender known per
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-02-14/News_a…
<http://ref>might it just be that female editors prefer to keep there gender
unknown which seems like an equally valid explanation of the results.
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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From: Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:34:48 -0500
To: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Nine Reasons Women Don't Edit Wikipedia
> On 20 February 2011 14:24, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Sue, as you know, this is the area of my greatest concern regarding the
>> future of the Wikipedia Project. The gender gap is a part of the larger
>> problem you described above: That of a combative, hostile and defensive
>> culture that presents an unchecked arena for Community Member harassment and
>> abuse - that prevents the type of healthy, intelligent and productive
>> collaboration that can, and will, improve and maintain the quality of the
>> Project. Is there, are there, plans to mount a similar initiative to tackle
>> this larger problem? To approach it as a gender-neutral problem?
>
on 2/20/11 5:46 PM, Sue Gardner at sgardner(a)wikimedia.org wrote:
> Yes, absolutely. And it's not just plans: people are actively working
> on the issue, today. This is the primary work of the Community
> department at the Wikimedia Foundation -- the staff there are
> currently working with community members on a bunch of projects and
> activities to help make the Wikimedia projects more inclusive. A lot
> of that is happening on the outreach wiki -- for example, the Account
> Creation improvement project, the Bookshelf project, the Ambassador
> program, support for student campus associations, and so forth.
>
> http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Account_Creation_Improvement_Project
> http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf_Project
> http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Ambassador_Program
> http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_student_clubs
>
> There's also some outreach-related/outreach-supportive activities that
> have been announced on the Wikimedia blog:
>
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/11/30/upload-wizard-launches-beta-wikim…
> a-commons/
>
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/30/two-new-community-department-fello
ws> /
>
> I agree with you Marc that our central challenge is the need for deep
> culture change, to help Wikimedia be more inclusive and open. I think
> the gender challenge is part of that, but it's obviously not the whole
> story: we need more women, and we also need more editors from outside
> North America and Europe, as well as other underrepresented groups.
> And we want current editors to be having better, more positive
> experiences on the projects, as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Sue
Thank you, for this, Sue. And, at the most basic level, we a faced with the
reality that this cultural change can only begin, and grow, at the most
basic level: The individual. Sue, there are key persons in the Project that,
by virtue of their official position or, simply because they are more
frequently vocal on the various Project conversation sites, who must lead by
example. Each one must be actively working toward this healthier culture.
They, and all of us, must set the tone. I truly believe that if the climate
is healthy, the culture will be also.
Marc
Does Wikimedia have a VPAT for 508 compliance?
Thanks,
Jill McGuire
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