http://www.snellspace.com/IBM_Blogging_Policy_and_Guidelines.pdfhttp://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/59570
experpts:
"Whether or not an IBMer chooses to create or participate in a blog or a
wiki or other form of online publishing or discussion is his or her own
decision."
"2. Blogs, wikis and other forms of online discourse are individual
interactions, not corporate communications. IBMers are personally
responsible for their posts."
I wish to register my support for the creation of a
Scots language wiki.
Bryan Parry
bajparry(a)yahoo.co.uk
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Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats
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There have been a variety of discussions on meta about Official
Positions [OP]; some of them recent. See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Official_positionhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_agenda/Open_questions_2#Positions
This is one of the major elements of discussion at today's Board meeting.
I would like to present a somewhat contra-OP argument that the core of
WP's success has not been its exclusive delegation of responsibility
to individuals, but rather its successful empowerment of /all/ of its
users, even new ones, to jump in and do what needs to be done.
Providing Officers with unique power and authority is a two-edged
sword; it encourages those individuals to take extra responsibility,
and provides them with authority to herd other volunteers. But simply
going out and working diligently on a project provides a similar
authority, and an internal, rather than an external, sense of
responsibility.
The existence of rare, Board-sanctioned official positions in areas
where there is not already an active group of un-official Wikipedians,
can discourage the rest of the community from jumping in, and adds
heirarchy and single points of failure to what would otherwise (in the
case of a pressing event) be an open system.
I would be comfortable with the creation of special interest groups
based around the priorities of the community and the foundation,
before deciding on individuals to represent those interests. Creating
titled individuals to carve out new interest groups, as has been
suggested in the past, is certainly unwiki and probably unscalable.
--
+sj+
In the past I've had disagreements with Raul about the copyright
status of some of the music he has been uploading. In these cases he
has received permission from the recording artist, but the recording
artist may not have had the right to grant permission due to the music
itself being new and copyrighted, or due to the performer working off
copyrighted score.
Clearing rights for music is a complex and difficult area to deal
with, and I gave up arguing it with Raul at the time as it's clear
that his intentions were good and that we could deal with it when
someone finally complained.
However, Raul recently uploaded
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Morissette_-_Ironic.ogg
I brought this issue up to him, and his reply was that yes, it looks
somewhat fishy but the boilerplate copyright waver on a government
website should be sufficient.
I am pretty much without words on this. I think Raul's behavior on the
matter of music copyright is negligent. I know this is a harsh thing
to say, ... I gave him the benefit of the doubt on the classical
music, but there is no other way I can describe the uploading of the
Ironic song.
Overall, wikipedia's handling of material taken from government
websites has been playing it fast and loose (it's only PD if the
government created it, if they bought it from someone they might have
the right to distribute it, but *we* may not) but we've really stepped
over the line with this one.
We need to have a discussion of how to handle music copyright issues.
Hello,
There are special digraphs in the Ossetic alphabet considered
"letters". They are: Дз, Дж, Къ, Хъ, Пъ, Тъ, Цъ, Чъ.
How can I make them appear in the categories?
See:
http://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:%D0%A6%C3%A6%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%82_%D0%98…
In this category we have two examples of misrepresenting:
Хъæдгæрон under the letter "Х" (it should be under a digraph "Хъ") and
Дзæуджыхъæу under the letter "Д" with Донифарс, though they start in
different sounds/letters (Дз & Д).
How can I manage this situation? Maybe there is some fast'n'easy way
to make those headlines "Дз", "Дж", etc.?
I know the problem will appear for many other languages too: e. g. in
all the languages writing Cyrillic in the Caucasus they have digraphs
(Къ, КI, etc.) and even trigraphs (Къу, etc.).
Sl. Ivanov,
os.wikipedia admin
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--- Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> > But at least we've picked out the name :)
>
> Is it a supertitious issue not to make it public ?
I haven't registered the domain name yet! :)
> I hope everything will be fine, but at least, now it can happen any
> time
> with no problem :-)
Everything will be fine. I'll announce at some point. Thanks.
Chris Mahan
818.943.1850 cell
chris_mahan(a)yahoo.com
chris.mahan(a)gmail.com
http://www.christophermahan.com/
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--- Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Mark Williamson a �crit:
> > Sounds like a good idea! I'm donating my firstborn.
> >
> > Mark
>
> That sounds like a very unreasonable idea Mark :-)
>
> By the way, we have not much mail from him these days... is
> Christopher
> baby born yet ?
4 more weeks, and the baby showers are killing me. My wife had 4!
(i'm busy writing thank you cards...
But at least we've picked out the name :)
Chris Mahan
818.943.1850 cell
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