Hi,
2017-01-12 1:41 GMT+01:00 Newyorkbrad newyorkbrad@gmail.com:
If it is decided not to host these materials on a wiki, whether for copyright or any other reasons, then someone (either in the Office or a volunteer) should be designated to retain a copy privately. That way, he or she will be able to upload it later if the copyright status or policy changes in the future, or to make it available offline for research use or consultation by historians or other researchers who could make good use of it.
That completely defeats the point. Anyone can keep a copy locally, but 1. the file isn't available publicly, 2. nobody really knows where it is available (Google won't say X has a copy), 3. if the local storage is damaged, the file is lost.
So I am asking the WMF to have a place to keep such files publicly.
Regards,
Yann
Newyorkbrad/IBM
On 1/11/17, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for bringing this up, Yann. Some relevant context is that Meta Wiki users considered permitting such files on Meta Wiki a year and a
half
ago, and decided not to. The electorate was not very big (14 votes,
total),
but it was carefully considered, with compelling arguments made on both sides.[1]
In my opinion, the best outcome would be that Meta Wiki should have an Exemption Doctrine Policy (the board's name for a project's local policy that would permit copyrighted files under specific circumstances)[2] I think the Meta Wiki decision should be revisited and considered in more depth, with more participation, and probably reversed (with some careful work on defining the proper circumstances for an exemption).
But of course, that's not an easy task. I have no ready answer, but am interested to see what ideas others have. -Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Babel&
diff=prev&oldid=13362698#General_discussion_on_allowing_or_rejecting_fair_ use_at_Meta
[2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Yann Forget yannfo@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I would like to get more opinions about what to do with files such as https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Education_and_WGIG.pdf
This is a draft from a United Nations conference which mentions
Wikipedia
(the first and only AFAIK), and as such, an important historical
document.
It doesn't have a formal license, but there is no real copyright issue.
Where and how should we keep such files?
Regards,
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