Thank you. I had someone help me this morning. The covers were made
available under creative commons when we first used them--we the
editorial board who put together each issue.
This somehow reminds me, when people give people overly complicated.
directions when they don't really want them to find where they want to go.
A common enough practice. Then you figure it wasn't worth the trip.Glad to
know there are helpful people.Appreciate it.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Ryan Vesey rdjve...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Kathleen,
I'm sorry you've had so much difficult uploading this journal cover.
There's a couple options we can take to make this easier. First, to upload
the cover of the journal on commons, you'll need to make sure that the
designer of the cover not only permits you to upload it, but also permits
it to be released under a valid creative commons license. That would mean
that anybody could use that image, even for commercial purposes. If that
permission is granted, you can upload the image and have a completed
version of this
formhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiriessent
to
permissions-comm...@wikimedia.org You can leave a note at my Wikipedia
talk page here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ryan_Vesey and I
can help you tie up any loose ends. A more detailed description can be
seen on this
pagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Donating_copyrighted_materials.
Another option, if the journal has a website, would be to have a disclaimer
on the website stating that the cover is released under a valid license.
If the copyright owner is unwilling to release the cover under such an open
license, or wants to release the image to Wikipedia only it can be
uploaded locally to English Wikipedia with this
linkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:File_Upload_Wizardunder a fair
use claim.
Here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Acr_cover.jpg is an example of a
journal using a fair use claim.
I hope this helps,
Ryan Vesey
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Kathleen McCook klmcc...@gmail.comwrote:
I have read this list with great care. I am a senior faculty member in
what used to be a library school but is now an iSchool. Most of our new
hires have been men who try very hard to pretend that the librarian legacy
is disappearing. In my classes (one is the History of Libraries) my
students are 60% female. All of my assignments are to edit and contribute
to Wikipedia from the scholarship students uncover in archives and local
histories. 35 years ago I chaired the American Library Association
Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship--baffled that a field of
women was dominated by men. It was a long effort to isolate factors that
resulted in status differential but the factors were 1)publishing;
2) professional involvement; 3) willingness to relocate.
So, the issue of women's opportunity for full participation continues. I
will do my best to encourage women to be involved in Wikipedia and thus
help to broaden the perspective. Reading this list has been very
inspirational. In the past ten years my efforts to edit in Wikipedia were
very discouraging in spite of a doctoral degree in my subject field. I know
there were many nameless boys delighting in destruction. I have completely
given up trying to post images as the image watchers delight in making this
near to impossible even if one is trying to upload one's own pictures. The
cover of a journal I edit, that is in the commons that I had full editorial
board approval to upload has never been allowed. But a boy in pajamas beat
me every time
.
This group has shown that that is so and must be fought--before I
encountered this group I was more and more discouraged. Don't back down.
Kathleen de la Peña McCook, Librarian
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Sarah Stierch
sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote:
Don't we know by now not to read the comment sections? ;)
I gave that up a while ago. If I read the comment sections I would have
quit my fellowship months ago and given up the fight.
-Sarah
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 25, 2013, at 12:32 AM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen o...@palnatoke.org
wrote:
I thought of sharing the article, but then I read the comment. :-(
regards,
Ole
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Sarah Stierch
sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote:
Myself and Joseph Reagle were interviewed by the Daily Dot about the
gender gap.
You can read it here:
http://www.dailydot.com/society/wikipedia-gender-gap-sarah-stierch/
Probably one of my favorite articles thus far about the gender gap.
Beware, dorky photograph of yours truly at the top, so if you haven't had
your coffee this morning it'll surely startle you. ;)
-Sarah
--
*Sarah Stierch*
*Museumist and open culture advocate*
Visit sarahstierch.com http://sarahstierch.com
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