[Commons-l] Commons-l Digest, Vol 49, Issue 35

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>   1. Re: Commons-l Digest, Vol 49, Issue 34 (JIM Click)
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>   3. [Fwd: Re:  Commons-l Digest, Vol 49, Issue 34] (Maarten Dammers)
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> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:28:27 -0500
> From: "JIM Click" <jclick at suddenlink.net>
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>>   1. Re: Berkman audio and video now in Ogg (and CC-BY) (Michael Peel)
>>   2. Fwd: [WikiEN-l] The edit heard round the world (David Gerard)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:32:11 +0100
>> From: Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Berkman audio and video now in Ogg (and
>> CC-BY)
>> To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
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>> Is there any sort of plan to import these in bulk to Commons? Seems
>> like the ideal thing for a bot to do...
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>> Mike
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>> On 20 Jun 2009, at 16:22, Erik Moeller wrote:
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>>> See: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5444
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>> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:33:06 +0100
>> From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Commons-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] The edit heard round the world
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>> Anyone able to help with this?
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>> (Durova's been doing a lot of restoration work on Commons. There has
>> also been discussion on wikien-l about crediting restorers - there's
>> frequently no copyright obligation to credit restorers, but doing so
>> is (a) polite (b) more accurate sourcing (c) encourages more good
>> restorations on Commons. Ideas for workable restorer crediting
>> welcomed.)
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>> - d.
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>> From: Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>
>> Date: 2009/6/27
>> Subject: [WikiEN-l] The edit heard round the world
>> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
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>> Hi all,
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>> Have been working on coaxing the return of a talented editor by the name
>> of
>> Shoemaker's Holiday--who is by far WMF's most skilled volunteer at
>> restoring
>> historic etchings. ?Turns out he's been working on an important project:
>> perhaps someone can help obtain source material.
>>
>> The subject is Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre:
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>> http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19159
>> http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.01657
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>> As you can see, both of the Library of Congress copies are missing
>> sections
>> of data due to damage. ?If we can obtain a high resolution scan from a
>> third
>> copy of this etching, it will become possible to assemble a composite of
>> the
>> complete engraving.
>>
>> (For Wikimedians who aren't US-Based, the Boston Massacre was a key event
>> that preceded the American Revolution. ?Paul Revere's famous depiction
>> helped spread dissatisfaction with colonial rule).
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>> What we're looking for are editors who to interface with historic
>> societies
>> or libraries that own an original copy of the engraving. ?Particularly
>> within Boston or Massachusetts, although copies probably exist across
>> various locations in the eastern United States. ?We're looking to obtain
>> an
>> uncompressed scan of the document on the order of 25MB-100MB. ?Source
>> credit
>> will be provided to the institution, of course, and the final work might
>> be
>> selected to run on Wikipedia's main page.
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>> Please contact me if you can assist or provide contacts.
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>> -Durova
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> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:30:52 +0100
> From: Al Tally <majorly.wiki at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Commons-l Digest, Vol 49, Issue 34
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> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:28 PM, JIM Click <jclick at suddenlink.net> wrote:
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> Could someone please remove this person from the list? Thanks,
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> From: Maarten Dammers <maarten at mdammers.nl>
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> To whoever runs this list: Please remove this user
> (jclick at suddenlink.net). He doesn't seem to be able to do this himself.
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> Or doesn't this list have an admin anymore?
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> Maarten
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> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:28 PM, JIM Click <jclick at suddenlink.net
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> From: Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com>
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> Maarten Dammers wrote:
>> To whoever runs this list: Please remove this user
>> (jclick at suddenlink.net). He doesn't seem to be
>> able to do this himself.
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> Why do you think he wants to do that?
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>> Or doesn't this list have an admin anymore?
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>> Maarten
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> Funny. The same thing was asked exactly 11 months ago.
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.commons/4006
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> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:44:44 +0100
> From: Al Tally <majorly.wiki at googlemail.com>
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> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Maarten Dammers wrote:
>> > To whoever runs this list: Please remove this user
>> > (jclick at suddenlink.net). He doesn't seem to be
>> > able to do this himself.
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>> Why do you think he wants to do that?
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> Every time he posts to this list, it's asking to be removed...
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