Re: [Wikimediaau-l] smh article

Indeed - the danger is that someone browsing through http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Young_women (not a great look for how wikimedia feels about young women) ends up somewhere like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Erotic (or more explicit!) and feels that maybe these images s

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] smh article

What you did get quoted as saying was good (as PrivateMusings said), and it is a shame that what you just described was cut ou - especially the bit about critical evaluation. It really is unfortunate that they can make a news item about one parent who happens to stumble upon vandalism in an article

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] smh article

2009/5/24 private musings : > see > http://www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/parents-warned-of-wikiporn-risk/2009/05/23/1242498976065.html > > Unfortunately it's not a good news one, dealing with 'Wikiporn risk' - but I > think a 'well done' to brianna for sounding wise and sensible in a difficul

[Wikimediaau-l] smh article

see http://www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/parents-warned-of-wikiporn-risk/2009/05/23/1242498976065.html Unfortunately it's not a good news one, dealing with 'Wikiporn risk' - but I think a 'well done' to brianna for sounding wise and sensible in a difficult situation is due :-) The worry is

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia goes CC

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:18 AM, David Gerard wrote: > Hmm yes. So how to outreach to those? There's no good list of all GFDL wikis - is a very small list, WikiIndex.org is good but doesn't categorise by license. A good place to start may be http://s23.org/w

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia goes CC

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 1:18 PM, David Gerard wrote: > What's Wikia doing with its GFDL wikis? > It's listed on the outreach page: -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sen

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia goes CC

2009/5/23 Angela : > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 12:24 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> What GFDL resources? There's Wikipedia and ... Wikipedia. >> Really, Wikipedia was the only significant corpus of GFDL content. Now >> we can join the rest of the world. > You're forgetting the hundreds of thousands of

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia goes CC

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 12:24 AM, David Gerard wrote: > What GFDL resources? There's Wikipedia and ... Wikipedia. > > Really, Wikipedia was the only significant corpus of GFDL content. Now > we can join the rest of the world. You're forgetting the hundreds of thousands of wikis that thought it wo

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia goes CC

2009/5/23 Stephen Bain : > It's certainly good for Creative Commons. It's really a neutral for > the free culture movement as a whole, since the licences remain as > incompatible as ever, and since the opening up of Wikimedia content to > be incorporated into CC-BY-SA content (and vice versa) is >

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia goes CC

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Jessica Coates wrote: > > This is possibly the biggest Creative Commons development since it launched > in 2002, and great boon to the free culture community. It's certainly good for Creative Commons. It's really a neutral for the free culture movement as a whole,

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia goes CC

I voted for it and have been licencing all my Commons uploads as CC-BY-SA-3.0 for quite a while now, so am very happy about this. CC is just so much easier to explain to subjects of articles and copyright holders than is GFDL, that's the main reason I like it. 2009/5/22 Jessica Coates > I'm sur