As you've probably seen by now, the vote on a possible update of GFDL-licensed Wikimedia content is underway and will be closed by May 3. I've written a more detailed blog post here:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/14/vote-on-wikimedia-licensing-update-unde...
And, of course, the proposal itself can be found here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/License_update
There's plenty of discussion on the talk page.
Translations (and review of translations) are still very much welcome. :-)
I want to take a brief moment to thank the licensing committee and the translators, who have worked very hard in the last few weeks to make this vote possible. I'm really really grateful for their support. I also want to thank Tim Starling and Software in the Public Interest for their technical work to pull this together. It's not over yet, but still, I'm happy that we've made it this far. :-)
Thanks, Erik
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
As you've probably seen by now, the vote on a possible update of GFDL-licensed Wikimedia content is underway and will be closed by May 3. I've written a more detailed blog post here:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/14/vote-on-wikimedia-licensing-update-unde...
And, of course, the proposal itself can be found here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/License_update
There's plenty of discussion on the talk page.
Translations (and review of translations) are still very much welcome. :-)
I want to take a brief moment to thank the licensing committee and the translators, who have worked very hard in the last few weeks to make this vote possible. I'm really really grateful for their support. I also want to thank Tim Starling and Software in the Public Interest for their technical work to pull this together. It's not over yet, but still, I'm happy that we've made it this far. :-)
Thanks, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
My vote is already in.
Thanks to everyone involved in putting together the transition plan, discussions, legalese, cooperating with FSF, and the voting/polling itself!
The 13th I took 70 pictures of the fight between the red shirts and the army. I was in the first lines when the soldiers were shot at and molotov cocktails were thrown. The 14th I took pictures of the situation around government house in a more peacefull setting after the army had disbanded the red shirts.
Even though I have refused for 2,5 years to add any more of my knowledge to the Dutch wikipedia about thailand because of the bunch of idiotic civil servants ruling the place as if it is their own personal fiefdom I decided to give a couple of pictures.
Today 5 of the 19 pictures were put up for deletion ... and why .... because I forgot to say they were CC-BY-SA like the other 14 .... anyone with a bunch of brains would have asked me at my Talk page to add the license or would have done it themselves as they could safely assume that I would give them the same license as the other pictures .....
But no the damn civil servants put them up for deletion.
This is really hurting especially since I have done so much for the Dutch wikipedia and because for the first 6 pictures I was in a situation of violence. I regret deeply that I have donated these pictures to the wikimedia foundation and I hope that they will be deleted. As Soon As Possible.
And do not suggest Commons. That project is even worse. I would need a week just to study all of their idiocies.
Waerth/Walter van Kalken
And as a thank you for the pictures I am being blocked.
Waerth
The 13th I took 70 pictures of the fight between the red shirts and the army. I was in the first lines when the soldiers were shot at and molotov cocktails were thrown. The 14th I took pictures of the situation around government house in a more peacefull setting after the army had disbanded the red shirts.
Even though I have refused for 2,5 years to add any more of my knowledge to the Dutch wikipedia about thailand because of the bunch of idiotic civil servants ruling the place as if it is their own personal fiefdom I decided to give a couple of pictures.
Today 5 of the 19 pictures were put up for deletion ... and why .... because I forgot to say they were CC-BY-SA like the other 14 .... anyone with a bunch of brains would have asked me at my Talk page to add the license or would have done it themselves as they could safely assume that I would give them the same license as the other pictures .....
But no the damn civil servants put them up for deletion.
This is really hurting especially since I have done so much for the Dutch wikipedia and because for the first 6 pictures I was in a situation of violence. I regret deeply that I have donated these pictures to the wikimedia foundation and I hope that they will be deleted. As Soon As Possible.
And do not suggest Commons. That project is even worse. I would need a week just to study all of their idiocies.
Waerth/Walter van Kalken
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Waerth;
What were the reasons given for the blocking? Also, I understand if you're upset and don't want to upload them any more, but if you like, send me the best several of the shots (with caption please) and I will upload them to English Wikipedia.
-Dan
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Waerth waerth@asianet.co.th wrote:
And as a thank you for the pictures I am being blocked.
Waerth
The 13th I took 70 pictures of the fight between the red shirts and the army. I was in the first lines when the soldiers were shot at and molotov cocktails were thrown. The 14th I took pictures of the situation around government house in a more peacefull setting after the army had disbanded the red shirts.
Even though I have refused for 2,5 years to add any more of my knowledge to the Dutch wikipedia about thailand because of the bunch of idiotic civil servants ruling the place as if it is their own personal fiefdom I decided to give a couple of pictures.
Today 5 of the 19 pictures were put up for deletion ... and why .... because I forgot to say they were CC-BY-SA like the other 14 .... anyone with a bunch of brains would have asked me at my Talk page to add the license or would have done it themselves as they could safely assume that I would give them the same license as the other pictures .....
But no the damn civil servants put them up for deletion.
This is really hurting especially since I have done so much for the Dutch wikipedia and because for the first 6 pictures I was in a situation of violence. I regret deeply that I have donated these pictures to the wikimedia foundation and I hope that they will be deleted. As Soon As Possible.
And do not suggest Commons. That project is even worse. I would need a week just to study all of their idiocies.
Waerth/Walter van Kalken
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In response to my own email, Google Translate gives me the impression that you were blocked for flipping out [1] and becoming horrendously uncivil [2] with your colleagues, in response to the deletion issue.
*1: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%... *2: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki...
-Dan
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
Waerth;
What were the reasons given for the blocking? Also, I understand if you're upset and don't want to upload them any more, but if you like, send me the best several of the shots (with caption please) and I will upload them to English Wikipedia.
-Dan
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Waerth waerth@asianet.co.th wrote:
And as a thank you for the pictures I am being blocked.
Waerth
The 13th I took 70 pictures of the fight between the red shirts and the army. I was in the first lines when the soldiers were shot at and molotov cocktails were thrown. The 14th I took pictures of the situation around government house in a more peacefull setting after the army had disbanded the red shirts.
Even though I have refused for 2,5 years to add any more of my knowledge to the Dutch wikipedia about thailand because of the bunch of idiotic civil servants ruling the place as if it is their own personal fiefdom I decided to give a couple of pictures.
Today 5 of the 19 pictures were put up for deletion ... and why .... because I forgot to say they were CC-BY-SA like the other 14 .... anyone with a bunch of brains would have asked me at my Talk page to add the license or would have done it themselves as they could safely assume that I would give them the same license as the other pictures .....
But no the damn civil servants put them up for deletion.
This is really hurting especially since I have done so much for the Dutch wikipedia and because for the first 6 pictures I was in a situation of violence. I regret deeply that I have donated these pictures to the wikimedia foundation and I hope that they will be deleted. As Soon As Possible.
And do not suggest Commons. That project is even worse. I would need a week just to study all of their idiocies.
Waerth/Walter van Kalken
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Well with the way the Dutch moderators are they deserve this.
The blocking moderator JacobH said on nl.wikipedia that I have: "threathened the blocking mod with violence" Which is pathetic as he has no proof and just ask the unblocking mod. This is LIBEL pure and simple. (http://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Overleg_gebruiker%3AWaerth&dif...)
Here you can see that the unblocking moderator refutes this: (http://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Overleg_gebruiker%3AWaerth&dif...)
Right now in Wikipedia there is a statement that I have threathened someone with physical violence. Which I have clearly never done.
This is the average level of the moderation on the Dutch wikipedia.
I demand this to be oversighted out as this is libel pure and simple.
Unfortunately when this is oversighted out I cannot start a desysop against this mod.
Waerth
In response to my own email, Google Translate gives me the impression that you were blocked for flipping out [1] and becoming horrendously uncivil [2] with your colleagues, in response to the deletion issue.
*1: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%... *2: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki...
-Dan
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
Waerth;
What were the reasons given for the blocking? Also, I understand if you're upset and don't want to upload them any more, but if you like, send me the best several of the shots (with caption please) and I will upload them to English Wikipedia.
-Dan
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Waerth waerth@asianet.co.th wrote:
And as a thank you for the pictures I am being blocked.
Waerth
The 13th I took 70 pictures of the fight between the red shirts and the army. I was in the first lines when the soldiers were shot at and molotov cocktails were thrown. The 14th I took pictures of the situation around government house in a more peacefull setting after the army had disbanded the red shirts.
Even though I have refused for 2,5 years to add any more of my knowledge to the Dutch wikipedia about thailand because of the bunch of idiotic civil servants ruling the place as if it is their own personal fiefdom I decided to give a couple of pictures.
Today 5 of the 19 pictures were put up for deletion ... and why .... because I forgot to say they were CC-BY-SA like the other 14 .... anyone with a bunch of brains would have asked me at my Talk page to add the license or would have done it themselves as they could safely assume that I would give them the same license as the other pictures .....
But no the damn civil servants put them up for deletion.
This is really hurting especially since I have done so much for the Dutch wikipedia and because for the first 6 pictures I was in a situation of violence. I regret deeply that I have donated these pictures to the wikimedia foundation and I hope that they will be deleted. As Soon As Possible.
And do not suggest Commons. That project is even worse. I would need a week just to study all of their idiocies.
Waerth/Walter van Kalken
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-- Dan Rosenthal
Very generally:
It is quite complicated to keep an eye on all files comming into Wikipedia or Commons. No wonder admins delete those without _absolutely needed_ information provided by its uploader without further investigation. Notification of being doing it so is just enough. If one wants to care about legal purity of the project, such decisions must be made sometimes. Admin's very often delete material which they like but something is wrong or missing.
There is no need for being angry if someone's images are deleted. It is really easy to undelete the images in case the information is provided later.
It would be a blunder to add a license "in good faith". This is only and only author's right.
No idea why uploading own images should be complicated in Commons. It hardly can be easier. The whole process is very nice to its user.
If somebody wants very fine admins' work and behaviour, he or she should at least try to do the same. If somebody calls for a good faith, he or she should act in the good faith too.
Jiri
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Waerth waerth@asianet.co.th wrote:
Today 5 of the 19 pictures were put up for deletion ... and why .... because I forgot to say they were CC-BY-SA like the other 14 .... anyone with a bunch of brains would have asked me at my Talk page to add the license or would have done it themselves as they could safely assume that I would give them the same license as the other pictures .....
I see you got a message in your talk page, I'm pretty sure the deletion process would have stopped immediately after you put the license you forgot. By not putting the license tag themselves they're protecting your author's rights, as they can't be sure you really wanted to license the photos as cc-by-sa. God knows, maybe you would have written a pissed off email saying that "the damn civil servants" license your images without asking you...
But no the damn civil servants put them up for deletion.
Like I guess they would have done with anyone's images, including another fellow admin
This is really hurting especially since I have done so much for the Dutch wikipedia and because for the first 6 pictures I was in a situation of violence. I regret deeply that I have donated these pictures to the wikimedia foundation and I hope that they will be deleted. As Soon As Possible.
You know what? Tagging the other 5 images would have taken much less time than writing this email, and you would have pissed off fewer people.
Cruccone
The blocking reason is a personal attack to the deleting admin (Not complete sure of that), but I understand that is solved now.
Walter thank you very much for uploading those pictures!
huib
When I joined wikipedia 5 years ago we had something called ASSUME GOOD FAITH. That meant that you didn't nominate stuff for deletion first. You ASKED someone first! I have been on the projects for well over 5 years now, I have written over 1000 articles. People could ask first. How is the project hurt if someone waits a day instead of within an hour nominating something for deletion without asking first.
The problem is all these selfmade programs with which the admins do their adminning. They just press a button and everything is done. No brains are used anymore. You could have a monkey be an admin on wikipedia and no-one would notice the difference.
Wikipedia used to be a human project once. It is now ruled by robots and automated responses. Which means that people have forgotten that if you see an experienced user ERR on the wrong you ask him first and not immediately put something up for deletion. Another wikipedian, Jojan asked me politely first so I did what he asked. Ciell put up for deletion first and only after I got angry she asked ... wrong order!
Waerth
And no I will not add the license myself, I am waiting for Ciell to do it.
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Waerth waerth@asianet.co.th wrote:
Today 5 of the 19 pictures were put up for deletion ... and why .... because I forgot to say they were CC-BY-SA like the other 14 .... anyone with a bunch of brains would have asked me at my Talk page to add the license or would have done it themselves as they could safely assume that I would give them the same license as the other pictures .....
I see you got a message in your talk page, I'm pretty sure the deletion process would have stopped immediately after you put the license you forgot. By not putting the license tag themselves they're protecting your author's rights, as they can't be sure you really wanted to license the photos as cc-by-sa. God knows, maybe you would have written a pissed off email saying that "the damn civil servants" license your images without asking you...
But no the damn civil servants put them up for deletion.
Like I guess they would have done with anyone's images, including another fellow admin
This is really hurting especially since I have done so much for the Dutch wikipedia and because for the first 6 pictures I was in a situation of violence. I regret deeply that I have donated these pictures to the wikimedia foundation and I hope that they will be deleted. As Soon As Possible.
You know what? Tagging the other 5 images would have taken much less time than writing this email, and you would have pissed off fewer people.
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