what's the procedure to use if i have an images from unknown sources
which i wish to use in wikiversity?
is it simply no go?
or are there particular conditions under which it may be appropriate - i
seem to sometimes see images on wikipedia which are tagged to indicate
that there is no other option except to use that particular image - how
does this work?
feel free to point me to reading - i just want to get clear guidelines
in my head
i don't have any specific images in mind - each year i rework teaching
materials, i remove a few more proprietary images and add a few more
free images, but it is a gradual process to eventually get everything
fully free
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* 1 Approach
* 2 Questions with answers
o 2.1 Q1: What is Wikiversity?
o 2.2 Q2: How did Wikiversity progress historically?
o 2.3 Q3: What is Wikiversity's vision?
o 2.4 Q4: How is Wikiversity different from Wikibooks?
o 2.5 Q5: So I'm a newcomer to Wikiversity. What can I write?
o 2.6 Q6: What are some of the tasks done by administrators?
o 2.7 Q7: How come there aren't many languages projects in
Wikiversity?
o 2.8 Q8: I noticed some namespaces here that are not
available found in Wikipedia. Can you explain when and where they are used?
o 2.9 Q9: Being one of the smaller sister projects (comparing
to others such as commons or meta), does the project have any plans to
encourage more people to register and contribute?
o 2.10 Q8 Do Wikiversity host original researches? How do you
manage them? What are the current research projects?
o 2.11 Q11: What is the most pressing problem facing
Wikiversity? How can we solve it?
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Sujet: [Foundation-l] [Announcement] Sloan awards Wikimedia USD 1m
annually for three years
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:20:59 -0700
De: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>
Répondre à :: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Organisation: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Pour :: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi folks,
I’m delighted to tell you that yesterday, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
board of directors voted to award the Wikimedia Foundation USD 1 million
annually for the coming three years. A total of USD 3 million, spread
over three years.
This is what Sloan characterizes as "institutional funding" - meaning, a
form of grant designed to help us work towards our general goals – in
our case, financial and operational sustainability, increasing quality,
increasing and broadening participation, and distributing our material
beyond the wiki environment. As you know, we’ve recently expanded the
staff from 10 to 15, and we still have a few more positions to fill:
this funding will offset those increased costs.
This is _fabulous_ news. Sloan is high-profile and widely-respected:
this donation is financially significant for us, and it also signals
that Sloan sees our work as important and our organization as trustworthy.
I’d like to take a moment to thank Erik Moeller, who developed our first
contact with Sloan through his work representing Wikimedia on the
Encyclopedia of Life's institutional council. (Sloan is an EOL funder.)
Based on that initial relationship, in January Sloan invited Erik to
present to them about Wikimedia, after which they asked us for a formal
request for funding. Without Erik, this would not have happened. Yay,
Erik :-)
We will be sending out a press release in a few hours, and I will also
send this note to foundation-l soon. Meanwhile, please join the staff
and board of the Wikimedia Foundation in celebrating this terrific news!
Thanks,
Sue
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I realise this isn't a new topic, so feel to point me to
further/background reading...
but what are the implications and legal subtleties of the difference
between the licenses used on WV (GNU Free) and WE (CC Attribution)?
I would like to prepare a proforma letter to send to owners of copyright
material which I use in my teaching (e.g., an image in a presentation),
requesting permission for them to release the IP into a free culture
license which would it to be uploaded into Wiki Commons or elsewhere as
appropriate. My hunch is that > 50% could give permission.
If there is such a letter you know of or can share, please let me know.
Obviously it would be important for such a letter to cover all
conceivable licensing contingencies.
Is the solution to dual-license materials? And could that be done,
practically?
posted to:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#How_to_provide_multi…
How to provide multiple formats for a single image? (.odg and .png)
I have some diagrams and wish to upload (and use in Wikiversity). I
would like to upload both .odg and .png formats for each diagram, so
that people can remix (.odg), but also use the image as is (.png). How
would I go about uploading multiple formats for a single image? Jtneill
06:21, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello Draicone,
did you get my mail regarding:
http://www.sandboxserver.org/wiki/index.php?title=Testing_Mediawiki_extensi…
Erkan
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Date: Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikiversity-l] How to provide multiple formats for a single
image? (.odg and .png)
To: james(a)wilderdom.com, Mailing list for Wikiversity <
wikiversity-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:23 PM, James Neill <lists(a)wilderdom.com> wrote:
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> posted to:
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#How_to_provide_multi…
>
> How to provide multiple formats for a single image? (.odg and .png)
Uploading to the actual wiki servers could get tricky, but maybe you
can upload the file to the Sandbox Server?
See http://www.sandboxserver.org/ for more details. Let me know if
you'd like an account and I'll set it up.
You can then upload it to your personal space on the sandbox server
and link to the file there from the wiki page.
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alright, i'm having fun getting not very far with converting stuff to
mediawiki syntax
my latest mystery i thought would be easy... but alas...
I am trying to convert odp files to mediawiki text. I just want to get
the outline bullet-pointed text and headings into mediawiki markup. I
have tried pasting into OO writer and using the MW export, but it
doesn't come out as hoped. MSO PPT has a save to .rtf feature - I also
tried this and pasting the rft into OO, but didn't get anything usable.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=278756#278756
