Sorry Anne, I missed your email. Thanks for your comment. Regards,
Isaac. On Oct 2, 2017 6:31 PM, "Isaac Olatunde" <[email protected]> wrote: > Neither the "Wikipedia community " nor the "Nigerian community" is to > decide whether they merit a Wikipedia page or not. One does not become a > subject of a Wikipedia article by creating a video for WMF. If they had > been the subject of multiple independent reliable sources, someone with no > conflict of interest will probably write about them and this has nothing to > do with the Wikipedia community or the Nigerian community. > > This is a commissioned work and accordingly to Nigerian copyright law, the > copyright of the work does not belong to the WMF but the creator of the > work. Unless there is a contract agreement between Mark Angels and the WMF > to release the work under a free license, I doubt they will change the > license. I'll like to hear from Zack if such agreement exist. > > Regards, > > Isaac > > On Oct 2, 2017 5:59 PM, "Florence Devouard" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Le 02/10/2017 à 18:52, Isla Haddow Flood a écrit : >> >>> Hey Zack, >>> >>> Thanks for the clarity … that completely makes sense - I don’t think >>> that anyone has a problem with them being paid to do an excellent job (at >>> least, I don’t) - I was just wondering about the licensing on their release >>> of the video. Perhaps you could ask them to change it, unless it is not >>> what they agreed to? And if they are claiming the video, they should >>> mention that they were commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation or whoever >>> to do it. That would tick all the attribution boxes, and keep with the >>> licensing, yes? >>> >>> With regards to whether that makes them notable enough to have a >>> Wikipedia article, then that is for the Nigerian community to decide. But >>> it should be because they are notable in their own right, and not because >>> they did a Wikipedia video. >>> >> >> One correction. It is not for the Nigerian community to decide. It is for >> the Wikipedia community to do so. >> >> Florence >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> African-Wikimedians mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >> >
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