[Foundation-l] Agreement between WMF and O'Reilly Media about Wikipedia: The Missing Manual on Wikipedia?

Robert Rohde rarohde at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 20:49:27 UTC 2009


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_I_mediaobject_d1e29885.png

-Robert Rohde

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Mark (Markie)
<newsmarkie at googlemail.com> wrote:
> i must admit i havent looked closely, but could you give us an example of an
> image where the watermark can be clearly seen and is an issue?
>
> regards
>
> mark
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Chris Down
> <neuro.wikipedia at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> Well, either way, there's no harm in asking him to upload ones without the
>> watermark.
>>
>> - Chris
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Gerard Meijssen
>> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> > Hoi,
>> > As far as I know, Commons has no such thing on watermarking. As always,
>> > come
>> > up with better illustrations and you can replace them. This is an
>> > extraordinary situation anyway... Wikipedia has also this other "rule;
>> > Ignore all rules.. A good one to apply for now.
>> > Thanks,
>> >     GerardM
>> >
>> > 2009/1/29 Chris Down <neuro.wikipedia at googlemail.com>
>> >
>> > > As a note, the images are watermarked, and I have notified the user.
>> IUP
>> > > states that this should not occur.
>> > >
>> > > - Chris
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Thomas Dalton <
>> thomas.dalton at gmail.com
>> > > >wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > 2009/1/28 Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com>:
>> > > > > Wikipedia would have to write some kind of
>> > > > > special exception to every rule to allow this book to exist there.
>> > > >
>> > > > We already have the only exception we need: IAR. (That doesn't means
>> > > > Wikibooks wouldn't handle it better, though!)
>> > > >
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