If someone is interested, discussion on the same subject at Portuguese
Wikisource:
Related to this, there is a discussion on Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Licensing#Images_PD_outside_…
Maybe somebody from the Foundation is willing to comment there?
Bryan
On 5/6/07, Yoni Weiden <yonidebest(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is there any possibility that the foundation
represents it's insight on
the
PD-Israel issue? I want to be 100% sure that
there are images that are
PD in
Israel but not PD in the US before I delete such
images from the Hebrew
Wikipedia.
yoni
2007/5/1, Luiz Augusto <lugusto(a)gmail.com>om>:
> On 5/1/07, Yann Forget <yann(a)forget-me.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Luiz Augusto a écrit :
> > > On 4/28/07, Ryan Dabler <zhaladshar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> On 4/27/07, Luiz Augusto <lugusto(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>> I'm on a similar problem at the Portuguese Wikisource due to
the
> > >>> [[:m:American non-acceptance of the rule of the shorter term]]
(see
> on
> > >>> [1];
> > >>> but the problem is on PD-old-70 and posthumous works).
> > >>>
> > >>> I've proposed in a private e-mail to Anthere (not yet replied,
I
> think
> > >>> that
> > >>> she is busy in others subjects) to create a set of wikis
<lang>.non-
> > >>>
us.wikisource.org hosted
outside of the United States
> ({{derivative}}
> > >> from
> > >>> the Debian non-us software repository [2]) to host works PD-old
> > >> worldwide
> > >>> but copyrighted in the USA.
> > >>
> > >> Why not just upload the texts to
http://wikilivres.info ? The
> servers
> > for
> > >> the site are located in Canada, and it was created by
> > [[s:fr:User:Yann]].
> > >> It seems like we would just be recreating the wheel here with
this
> > >> proposal
> > >> when a good alternative already exists.
> > >
> > > Yann has a really good initiative setting up the wikilivres.infosome
> > > mounths ago. But unfortunatelly this have limitations. Wikilivres
> > currently
> > > is so much like the Wikisource at the beginning: a ambitious
> > multilingual
> > > project in a single wiki site. I know the Wikisource project since
> 2004
> > > (when I have created my first user account on
wikisource.org/wiki:
> > Lugusto,
> > > User ID 568). But I'm a active editor on Wikisource only since
April
> > 2006.
> > > This isn't a coincidence. Is so much confuse to work in a project
like
> > > Wikisource on a multilingual wiki.
The user interface is one, you
try
> to
> > > search from a writer and you get a page in spanish, you try to
read
a
> > text
> > > and get a page on italian...
> >
> > At the beginning, I only thought about hosting documents in French.
Then
> > I found that there are documents in
English which might be usefully
> > hosted there. So now the objective it is to change Wikilivres to a
fully
> > multilingual wiki. Just now, I have
doubt about the usefulness to
have
> > several subdomains seeing the number of
users and documents, but I
am
> > open to changes. Anyway you are much
welcome to start a Portuguese
> > section there. And please come to discuss on #wikilivres on Freenode
or
> > put suggestions on the wiki itself, as
this is a bit offtopic here.
;o)
>
>
> I aren't telling to you change wikilivres.info. It is a functional
wiki
> for
> theirs purposes. I've only replied to a question ;)
>
> > Anyway, is impossible to link to a page at the wikilivres.info from
> > > Wikipedia, Wikibooks (or from Wikisource itself) without using a
> > external
> > > link. This isn't userfriendly.
> >
> > A solution was proposed for that.
>
>
> Thanks for all that have mentioned the interwiki map. This is new to
me
and
I've made a request for addition.
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