Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2013-01-22 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > Following up on this... > > The Editor Engagement Experiments team had the first one of these with Erik > and Sue last Tuesday (the 15th). Tilman was there to take notes, and I > published our slide deck, so there is a transcript and PDF to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] OTRS summaries and statistics report, 2012

2013-01-22 Thread phoebe ayers
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:51 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > Keegan Peterzell wrote: >>1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Reports/2012 >>2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS > > Nice. Thanks for putting this together. :-) > > MZMcBride > +1, thanks, this is a great report! It's very cool to see th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread Michael Jahn
Hi, great question, Richard! Seconding Matthew's comment on WMF blog policy: At Wikimedia Deutschland we adopted the bottom notes for posts with multiple images[1]. As a general rule, we include attribution in the bylines[2]. Adding yet another aspect to sufficient CC licensing, let's not forget

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread HaeB
2013/1/22 ??? : > On 22/01/2013 18:28, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> >> On 22 January 2013 16:51, Richard Symonds >> wrote: >>> >>> It appears that opinion is divided on whether a hyperlink is acceptable >>> as >>> attribution, therefore I'm asking the experts: >>> >>> - Does anyone have any input o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread Brad Jorsch
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Richard Symonds wrote: > > The CC family of licences [...] however, say that > you need to have attribution using a byline next to the image, in the > fashion 'Horation Nelson/CC-BY-SA'. Err, where? Looking at the text of the CC-BY-SA-3.0, it looks to me like it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread ???
On 22/01/2013 18:28, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 22 January 2013 16:51, Richard Symonds wrote: It appears that opinion is divided on whether a hyperlink is acceptable as attribution, therefore I'm asking the experts: - Does anyone have any input on this? - Has this discussion been had befo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 22 January 2013 16:51, Richard Symonds wrote: > It appears that opinion is divided on whether a hyperlink is acceptable as > attribution, therefore I'm asking the experts: > >- Does anyone have any input on this? >- Has this discussion been had before, if so, where? >- Should Wikipe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread Matthew Roth
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Richard Symonds < richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > All, > > I have a question for you which I am sure you will enjoy discussing. It's > about licencing. > > Wikimedia sites do not use a 'byline' on their images - for example, > http://commons.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread Thomas Morton
I've always considered this poor policy on the part of Wikipedia; a sort of intellectual "grab" that we do so well :( I've uploaded images before by great photographers, after working to obtain their permission, and make a point of crediting them when inserting the image into the article - partly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread Lodewijk
And I'm also unsure all the upload wizards have the same text? 2013/1/22 David Gerard > On 22 January 2013 17:41, Philippe Beaudette > wrote: > > > FYI, each and every edit on Commons has this text above the edit box: > > "...You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread David Gerard
On 22 January 2013 17:41, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > FYI, each and every edit on Commons has this text above the edit box: > "...You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the > Creative Commons license." Yeah, but Commons pulls in stuff from other CC-licenced places, so

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread Philippe Beaudette
FYI, each and every edit on Commons has this text above the edit box: "...You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license." pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Legal and Community Advocacy Office Hours Tuesday 18:00 UTC

2013-01-22 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Reminder that this happens in about 25 minutes... A note from the legal and community advocacy team: __ *Hi everyone, We are happy to spend the next hour talking about issues facing the Legal and Community Advocacy Department. People are free to raise any topics, but some r

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 22 January 2013 16:51, Richard Symonds wrote: > The CC family of licences, and Commons re-use guidelines, however, say that > you need to have attribution using a byline next to the image, in the > fashion 'Horation Nelson/CC-BY-SA'. > > It appears that opinion is divided on whether a hyperlin

[Wikimedia-l] Licencing question

2013-01-22 Thread Richard Symonds
All, I have a question for you which I am sure you will enjoy discussing. It's about licencing. Wikimedia sites do not use a 'byline' on their images - for example, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page requires an image to be clicked on before you can view the licence and the author inform

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarship now accepting application

2013-01-22 Thread Liam Wyatt
Glad to see the process is coming along :-) Could you please clarify the purpose of one of the mandatory questions in the form: " Hong Kong is an international gourmet paradise. Please use less than 200 words to describe your favourite dish of food." Is this an English-language test? Or, is this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] OTRS summaries and statistics report, 2012

2013-01-22 Thread MZMcBride
Keegan Peterzell wrote: >1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Reports/2012 >2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS Nice. Thanks for putting this together. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: htt

[Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Call for volunteers: Election Committee

2013-01-22 Thread Ting Chen
Hi Everyone, 2013 is an election year for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. As you may recall the board has three directly elected representatives on it which serve for two years. Currently those are Mindspillage, SJ and Wing. As in the past years we rely on an effective ele