There are an increasing number of organisations which have indicated
that their output is Creative Commons by default, however there are
not as many that have a public IP policy which clearly allows staff to
publish "their" work.
i.e. We have moved from the IP policy being the stick used to prevent
openness, and the "work for hire" and "publish process" are the next
frontier.
A few staff at University of Canberra (UC) have written an IP policy
proposal which clearly gives staff ownership of their work, and
requires CC licensing if their staff use organisational infrastructure
to create their work.
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/University_of_Canberra/Proposed_policy_on_in…
Otago Polytechnic adopted an IP policy like that in 2007.
http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic/Intellectual_property
Are there other examples, within or outside academia, where the
organisation empowers its staff by providing a policy which clarifies
when "work for hire" principle is enforced in this murky world of
online collaboration?
Does the WMF have an intellectual property policy for works created by
WMF employees?
Employees edit and upload using free licenses under their own name,
but does the copyright belong to the employee or to the WMF?
Is anyone in our community going to:
Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
Washington College of Law
American University, Washington, DC
August 25-27, 2011
http://infojustice.org/public-events/global-congress
--
John Vandenberg
This is to draw attention to the translations that have been made
available for the November 2011 "Wikimedia Highlights" - combining
some of the most relevant information from the Wikimedia Foundation
Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for November 2011 with a
selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement. Help
is welcome in spreading the translated versions among the project
communities for these languages, where this has not already been
done.Many thanks to all translators!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/da
Hovedpunkter fra Wikimedia Foundations månedsrapport og Wikimedias
tekniske rapport for november 2011 med et udvalg af andre
betydningsfulde hændelser i Wikimedia-bevægelsen
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/es
Destacados del Informe de la Fundación Wikimedia y del informe de los
ingenieros de la Fundación para el mes de noviembre de 2011, con una
selección de otros eventos importantes del movimiento Wikimedia
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/fr
Éclairages sur le rapport de la Fondation Wikimedia et le rapport
d’ingénierie Wikimedia pour novembre 2011, avec une sélection d’autres
évènements importants du mouvement Wikimedia.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/it
Approfondimenti dal rapporto della Wikimedia Foundation e dal rapporto
ingegneristico Wikimedia di novembre 2011, con una selezione di altre
importanti iniziative dagli eventi di Wikimedia.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/ja
2011年11月のウィキメディア財団報告書及びウィキメディア技術報告の抄録ほかウィキメディア運動の重要行事について
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/nl
Hoogtepunten uit de Wikimedia Foundationrapportage en de Wikimedia
technische rapportage voor november 2011, aangevuld met een selectie
van andere belangrijke gebeurtenissen binnen de Wikimediabeweging.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/vi
Những điểm nổi bật từ Bản báo cáo Wikimedia Foundation và phản hồi kỹ
thuật Wikimedia vào tháng 11 năm 2011, bao gồm các sự kiện quan trọng
khác của phong trào Wikimedia
The December "Wikimedia Highlights" are currently being prepared.
Suggestions for notable items to be covered in the short movement news
part are still welcome until Tuesday afternoon UTC, see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights .
Also a quick note that on the suggestion of users Timeshifter and
Buster Keaton, we're starting a (still experimental) global
subscription service for the "Wikimedia Highlights", similar to that
of the Signpost. If you would like to receive a summary message
delivered to your user talk page on any Wikimedia project right after
each issue is published, add yourself to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikimedia_H…
(at the moment this is for the English original, but eventually
subscription should become available for the translated versions as
well).
Regards, Tilman
--
Tilman Bayer
Movement Communications
Wikimedia Foundation
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Translators Without Borders and Wikipedia's Wikiproject Medicine would
like to announce a partnership to improve the free global access to
high quality health information. Wikipedia, as many are aware, is one
of the foremost health care information resources. It is freely usable
by all people globally and can be re-purposed or changed for other
uses as long as Wikipedia is acknowledged and the resulting product is
released under a license that allows the same. Wikipedia's 26,000
medical articles receive approximately 150-200 million page views a
month in English alone with some content available in over 280 other
languages. The top 300 medical articles receive more than 100,000 page
views a month[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_p…
and it is used extensively by both health care providers and the lay
public with between 50-70% of physicians using it in clinical
practice.
Availability of high quality content is however limited in many
languages. Even in English less than 1% of articles have passed a semi
formal peer review process. Our efforts are attempting to both improve
the English content and translation articles on humankind's 80 most
important health care conditions to as many other languages as
possible. This will be for many people the first time high quality
health information becomes available in their own language. We are
looking for people to both help us at Wikipedia improve articles in
English and people to help Translators Without Borders do translation.
We are also needing people with both language abilities and the
ability or desire to learn how to edit Wikipedia to integrate the
translated material back in the Wikipedia edition in question. This
project is just beginning and we are planning on caring it out over
the next three to five years. If you wish further details or want to
become involved feel free to contact me or sign up here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_tas…
. Also please be extra nice to all the people I am recruiting and give
me a heads up if problems are encountered.
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
> Message: 7
> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:25:33 +0400
> From: "Yaroslav M. Blanter" <putevod(a)mccme.ru>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions
> Shutting Down
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID: <fd4d5a6d2d4cf1db823bfb1df349c5ce(a)mccme.ru>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
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> On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 22:13:58 +0100, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2012/1/7 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
>>
>>> On 7 January 2012 20:12, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > The Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina holds 400,000
>>> > artifacts.
>>> > Any National Cultural Institution closing is a disaster.
>>>
>>> Yes, it is. So what's the game plan?
>>>
>>>
>> I'm not sure. If the WMF goals are to collect/preserve/disseminate
>> educational content, they can start with the holdings in endangered
>> cultural institutions. It is not my work, but some suggestions, from low
> to
>> high involvement:
>>
>> * blog post exposing the events
>> * a call to the museums, showing that we are concerned
>> * offering wikimedia projects to host any materials they want to give
>> * marathon to create related articles
>> * organize a "Wiki Invades..." to take photos and notes of the
> collections
>> * wikipedian in residence and put some money to fund some activities
>> * any other high profile partnership
>>
>> And read international news related to our long-term goals.
>>
>> Regards,
>> emijrp
>
> May be checking with WM Serbia (I am not sure they can do anything, but it
> would be good to know) and leaving a message on Serbian Wikipedia asking
> for advise/clarification/actions. Everybody can leave this message, but
> probably the most efficient would be to find someone who speaks Serbian.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
I might just be a crypto-American chauvinist (and really, that sort of
inflammatory message is completely unnecessary on this list), so I
apologise for any ignorance on the situation, but would Wikimedia
Serbia really be the best organisation to help out here. My
understanding is that Bosnia-Serbia relations are still very...
delicate... and a Serbian organisation coming in to help out with
Bosnian cultural artefacts, no matter how well meaning, might not get
the most enthusiastic of receptions.
Cheers,
Craig
This is well beyond acceptable discussion, and should draw attention
from the mysterious and rarely seen list moderators.
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 3:12 PM, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/1/7 geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>
>
>> On 7 January 2012 16:53, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> > It is sure that LOC is in the top priorities for Americans, and the BNL
>> for
>> > Serbians, don't you think so? Thanks for showing your patent chauvinism.
>>
>> Never ever imply that I am American again.
>>
>
> I'm not implying that you are American. I'm just saying that you are an
> ignorant chauvinist.
>
> The Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina holds 400,000 artifacts.
>
> Any National Cultural Institution closing is a disaster.
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=== Foundation ===
[Terms Of Use] - On websites the "Terms of Use" are what most of us
frequently indicate to agree with but never reed. Also Wikipedia has a
"Terms of Use". A "Terms of use" for Wikipedia came only to existence
years after its founding and remained very basic. Until now. In
original Wikimedia style a new Terms Of use have been written by the
community at Meta. It is more extensive then the current but it
remains, for a "Terms of Use", relative short and very readable. The
WMF board still needs to approve it before it can replaces the current
"Terms of Use".
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/31/terms-of-use/http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use -- New "Terms of Use"
(final community draft)
[The Annual Fundraiser] - Despite the economic problems of the world -
the Wikimedia Foundation did it again. The goal is every year higher
but the donations follow. The WMF has raised the new record amount of
20 million US dollar in the fundraiser that just now ended. The
miracle of the WMF business model to just ask for money keeps working.
But even a miracle needs some help. Last year the WMF spend 1,8 USD $
on fundraising. The operating budget of the WMF will increase in
spending in 2011-12 compared with 2010-11 with $9.8 million. 28.3
million USD will be the current budget. The gap between the raised
amount and the budget is closed by several grants and continuous
donations. 44% of the budget will go to running the actual
web-infrastructure. 24% will go to management, finance and
administration. A tiny fraction smaller, 23% of the budget, is under
the label "Other programs". The Community department and the Global
Development department falls under that slice. The rest are
fundraising costs. Best read the annual plan if you wish to know more.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/02/wikimedia-fundraiser-concludes-with-re…http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2011-2012_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Ans…
[Grant of $3.6 Million] - The Stanton Foundation -, a long term funder
of the WMF, donated $3.6 million USD (2,61 Million EUR) to the
Wikimedia Foundation. This is the largest grant ever received by the
WMF.
http://tinyurl.com/3qv5grb
=== Technical news ===
[https] - It was already possible to login to the projects by means of
a secure connection but that was by means of a
"https://secure.wikimedia.org" -type of link. Now the usable links
work. Just add the "s" to the protocol. This works on all Wikimedia
wikis. Using https is not yet the default option when you login. If
you wish to use it you need to enter it manually.
https://en.wikipedia.org
[Article Feedback] - A new article feedback system is in testing at EN
Wikipedia. A previous version used a star-system the the reader could
give to articles. The new one uses a different approach. It does not
asks to give points but the give real textual reader feedback. More
like a very easy comment function like on blogs and news sites. Only
are the comments not posted. Currently the collected data is only for
testing and not public. The idea is that editors will be able to
assess the feedback in the future. The test runs on limited number of
articles on EN Wikipedia.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/20/a-new-way-to-contribute-to-wikipedia/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29 --
example article with the new feedback function
=== Movement ===
[Al Jazeera] - The media company Al Jazeera, mostly know for its
television stations, is releasing a large part of the pictures and
video's the make under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0). This is
very, very great news. Wikinews and Wikipedia now have access to
recent quality material for there articles about topics that would be
nearly impossible otherwise.
http://cc.aljazeera.net/http://www.flickr.com/photos/aljazeeraenglish/sets/http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Al_Jazeera
=== Media ===
[Wikipedia Vs. Britannica] - It is not original but always interesting
to read; compare the articles of Wikipedia with those of Britannica
and other classic sources by academics. The reaserch is published in
the peer-reviewed medical journal "Psychological Medicine". To read
the actual article you can "buy" the article for $45 or "rent" it for
$5,99. Luckily the Singpost is not so silly.
http://tinyurl.com/6mzosac -- free read
=== Events and meetups ===
[Wikipedia Day] - next week, Sunday, it will be once more Wikipedia
Day; the founding day of Wikipedia. The 15th of January Wikipedia will
be become 11-years old. Several community's will hold a wiki-meetup in
honour or Wikipedia Day in India, Mexico, United Kingdom, United
States .... see link and check your local community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day#Wikipedia_Day_2012
=== Other news ===
[Illustrators] - An art and design school in Barcelona and the Catalan
foundation "Friends of Wikipedia" have made a partnership in which 6
illustration students are doing their final degree creating images
that will be incorporated under free licenses to Wikimedia Commons to
illustrate some Wikipedia articles.
http://theglamwikiexperience.blogspot.com/2012/01/emerging-illustrators-int…
[Wikiriffs] - "Every week or so I go to Wikipedia, click Random
Article, and write a song about whatever comes up."
https://www.youtube.com/user/WikiRiffs
=== Wikizine ===
[?] - between mid August and the end of September there was a short
but strong burst of Wikizines in different new editions, new emerging
concepts for Wikizine. This was under the direction of the new lead
editor of Wikizine User Milos. Unfortunately it was a short candle
that burned out very fast. This Wikizine is once more a "Classic
edition". No more "News", "Talk" of "Opinion" editions. It is
constructed once more by User:Walter. Realistically speaking Wikizine
is dead since long. This edition and possible future editions are the
product just of plain stubbornness to continue more or less despite
any objective reason to do so. In that spirit I also wish to point out
that Wikizine is still also online at Gopher-space. The wikizine.org
domain is just renewed for two years so in any case that will remain
online for the near future. Happy new year! -- User:Walter
=== Request for help ===
[WikiLovesMonuments] - The photo contest. Edition 2010 was only in
the Netherlands. Edition 2011 was in many European country's and very
successful. Will the edition of 2012 be a truly global event? Would
you be interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 in your
country? Would you like to know more? See the links below and join the
mailing list.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012 --
first steps for the 2012 edition
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011_winners -
see the winners of 2011
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu/ -- main website of WLM
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments --
join the mailing list
[Babel] - The Babel extension is a system to indicate what languages
you speak and at what level. Your invited to check of in your language
everything is (correctly) translated.
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/01/ask-and-it-will-be-given.html
=== Did you know ... ===
... that it very easy to get a QRcode for any Wikipedia article?
A QR code a square barcode that is used to point to online resources
that people can lookup with there mobile device. The website
QRpedia.org makes it very easy make a code for any Wikipedia article.
The code is language independent. When used it will return to the user
the Wikipedia article about that topic in the language of the user
based on the language settings of the mobile device. This system is
used in several museums to provide multi-language extra information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRpediahttp://qrpedia.org/
=== Quote ===
"jimmy_wales; I am proud to announce that the Wikipedia domain names
will move away from GoDaddy. Their position on #sopa is unacceptable
to us. 23 Dec Twitter."
Our Chairman Emeritus takes a political standpoint against a new US
law that could threat online freedom of speech.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act#Companies_and_organizat…
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especially but not limited to, correct grammar and spelling.
Satisfaction is not guaranteed. Some content can be highly
inspired or directly copied from other sources.
Those sources are listed above at "Sources-Attributions".
Wikizine.org is published by [[meta:user:Walter]].
Content is available under Creative Commons
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I am not suggesting that we use just a simple banner. We need to
create something with a picture of a Wikipedian with text like "join
us in improving the world leading encyclopedia, click here to learn
how."
Than when people click it will ask them "what sort of subject area are
you interested in" with options like medicine and
grammar/copyrediting, etc.
After which it would displace important thing people need to now for
the topic area or task they have shown interest in. For medicine they
would be given guidelines on what are appropriate references and a
link to WikiProject medicine where they can post comments.
This effort would be supported by the number crunchers at the WMF who
would determine which messages received more clicks and which messages
resulted in more editors. The banner shown could also be subject area
specific where we could test if having a medical student request
someone joins us is more effective than having someone with a
significant medical condition etc.
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
subject was: Spanish website blocking law implemented
Canadian public consultation on TPP closes February 14, 2012.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Pacific_Partnership
Is WMF and/or WM-CA intending to submit their views? How can we help!?
Do we have a list of submissions to govt.by the Wikimedia community? e.g.
there was an EU submission last year, and here is a WM-AU one
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Submission_on_Australian_Digital_Future_Di…
--
John Vandenberg
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE CONSULTATIONS ON
POTENTIAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENT NEGOTIATIONS WITH TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP
MEMBERS
The Government of Canada is seeking the views of Canadians on the scope of
possible free trade negotiations between Canada and Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) members, which include
- Australia
- Brunei Darussalam
- Chile (see footnote
1)<http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2011/2011-12-31/html/notice-avis-eng.ht…>
- Malaysia
- New Zealand
- Peru (see footnote
2)<http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2011/2011-12-31/html/notice-avis-eng.ht…>
- Singapore
- United States (see footnote
3)<http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2011/2011-12-31/html/notice-avis-eng.ht…>
- Vietnam
Additional countries have also expressed their interest in consultations on
joining the discussions:
- Japan
- Mexico (see footnote
4)<http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2011/2011-12-31/html/notice-avis-eng.ht…>
This notice is part of the Government of Canada’s domestic consultation
process with business, citizen-based organizations and individual
Canadians, as well as with provincial and territorial governments, to
obtain advice and views on priorities, objectives and concerns to help
outline the parameters of this initiative.
Background
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free trade agreement under
negotiation to liberalize trade in the Asia-Pacific region. Nine countries
are currently participating in the negotiations: Australia, Brunei
Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the
United States. Japan and Mexico have recently announced their intentions to
begin consultations to join the TPP. With the participation of Canada,
Mexico and Japan, the TPP would represent a market of more than 775 million
people and a combined GDP of $25.7 trillion (or US$24.9 trillion) — a
market larger than the European Union.
The intent of TPP negotiators is to create an ambitious, high-standard
regional free trade agreement that covers a wide range of areas related to
trade and investment. On November 12, 2011, leaders of the TPP member
countries meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, for the Asia Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) forum announced the achievement of a broad outline of an
agreement that would enhance trade and investment, promote innovation,
economic growth and development, and create and sustain jobs. Nine rounds
of negotiations have taken place.
Following review of the November 2011 outline released by TPP members,
Canada notes the high degree of complementarity between what is being
pursued in the TPP and the approach Canada takes in its own trade
negotiations.
Additional information on the TPP can be found at www.ustr.gov/tpp (in
English only).
Submissions by interested parties
The Government is embarking on a public consultation process to allow all
interested stakeholders an early opportunity to provide comments, input and
advice on possible free trade negotiations with TPP countries (current nine
members and other interested countries: Japan and Mexico). It is essential
that the Government of Canada be fully aware of the interests and potential
sensitivities of Canadians with respect to this initiative. We welcome
advice and views on any priorities, objectives and concerns relating to
possible free trade negotiations with TPP countries. In particular, we are
seeking views with respect to the following:
- Opinions on areas of goods export interest (identified by Harmonized
System [HS]/Tariff codes, if possible), including products that would
benefit from the early removal of tariffs and other barriers by TPP
countries.
- Views on market access liberalization for TPP countries products
(identified by HS/Tariff codes, if possible) into the Canadian market,
including input on those products for which the elimination of tariffs
should be expedited or phased-in over time.
- Advice and views on trade in services, particularly the identification
of sectors/activities of export interest for Canadian service providers,
and opinions on domestic regulatory measures that restrict or otherwise
affect market access for Canadian service providers.
- Advice, views and experiences regarding the temporary entry of
business persons from Canada into TPP countries and into Canada from TPP
countries (e.g. impediments to entering or working in TPP countries on a
temporary basis, including licensing or certification requirements at the
border).
- Advice, views and experiences regarding measures affecting exports
destined for TPP countries, including non-tariff barriers (such as import
licensing), technical barriers to trade (including technical regulations,
standards and/or conformity assessment procedures) and sanitary and
phytosanitary measures.
- Views on general rules of origin and/or advice on appropriate rules of
origin for specific products or sectors.
- Advice on “trade facilitation” issues (e.g. significant impediments
related to import procedures).
- Advice, views and experiences with customs procedures and with
commercial goods entering and/or leaving TPP countries.
- Advice, views and experiences regarding investment barriers faced by
Canadian investors in TPP countries, including restrictions imposed on
foreign ownership or entry to market, questions of transparency of
regulation, performance requirements (i.e. local content requirements, use
of local labour and services), and any other impediments/barriers.
- Advice and views on government procurement markets of interest to
Canadian suppliers and exporters to TPP countries, including the government
departments, agencies or enterprises of interest and the goods, services or
construction services that Canadian suppliers are interested in selling to
those government organizations. Note that participation in government
procurement may include bidding as the prime contractor or exporting goods
and/or services to the prime contractor who in turn bids on government
contracts.
- Advice, views and experiences regarding barriers (e.g. availability
and transparency of information, domestic preferences) when selling or
attempting to sell to governments of TPP countries.
- Views and experiences with the protection of intellectual property
rights.
- Advice and views on competition policy matters, including development
of possible cooperation mechanisms.
- Views on capacity-building measures that could assist developing
countries in achieving the objectives of the agreement.
- Views on ways to reflect the interests and values of Canadians in the
area of sustainable development, environmental protection and conservation.
- Views on ways to reflect the interests and values of Canadians in the
areas of workers’ rights, human rights, transparency in business and
commercial practices and other social concerns, as they relate to TPP
countries.
- Views on other related issues not mentioned above.
All interested parties are invited to submit their views by February 14,
2012. Please be advised that any information received as a result of this
consultation will be considered as public information, unless explicitly
stated otherwise. Submissions should include
1. the contributor’s name and address and, if applicable, his/her
organization, institution or business;
2. the specific issues being addressed; and
3. precise information on the rationale for the positions taken,
including any significant impact it may have on Canada’s domestic or
foreign interests.
Contributions can be sent by email to consultations@ international.gc.ca,
by fax to 613-944-3489 or by mail to Trade Negotiations Consultations
(TPP), Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Trade Policy and
Negotiations Division II (TPW), Lester B. Pearson Building, 125 Sussex
Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2.
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From: Kim Bruning <kim(a)bruning.xs4all.nl>
Date: Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 5:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Spanish website blocking law implemented
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
And canada is considering pushing back the public domain 20 years, under
... us influence yet again.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6225/125/
(Proposed and existing) US policy (foreign and domestic) is not really
in favor of wikimedia at the moment, is it? :-/
sincerely,
Kim Bruning