Re: [Commons-l] Commons licensing for chapter-owned copyrights

2009-06-05 Thread Abigor
No actually, I meant what I said. What I said was "keeping all rights reserved" on our logo's or other material seems a bit odd with our mission. Trademarks is another restriction on uses, and this we should not abandon. But I was speaking about copyright Huib Http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/

Re: [Commons-l] Commons licensing for chapter-owned copyrights

2009-06-05 Thread Abigor
Hello, This is maybe a kind of other point of view. I believe that the mission for the chaptors is to support free media.. But with keeping logo's protected under all right reserved that aren't giving a good example. I can understand that the official Wikimedia logos aren't free. But a logo for

Re: [Commons-l] Commons licensing for chapter-owned copyrights

2009-06-05 Thread Abigor
Hello, This is maybe a kind of other point of view. I believe that the mission for the chaptors is to support free media.. But with keeping logo's protected under all right reserved that aren't giving a good example. I can understand that the official Wikimedia logos aren't free. But a logo for

Re: [Commons-l] Commons licensing for chapter-owned copyrights

2009-06-05 Thread Abigor
Hello, This is maybe a kind of other point of view. I believe that the mission for the chaptors is to support free media.. But with keeping logo's protected under all right reserved that aren't giving a good example. I can understand that the official Wikimedia logos aren't free. But a logo for

Re: [Commons-l] Commons licensing for chapter-owned copyrights

2009-06-05 Thread Abigor
Hello, This is maybe a kind of other point of view. I believe that the mission for the chaptors is to support free media.. But with keeping logo's protected under all right reserved that aren't giving a good example. I can understand that the official Wikimedia logos aren't free. But a logo for

Re: [Commons-l] Commons licensing for chapter-owned copyrights

2009-06-05 Thread Abigor
Hello, This is maybe a kind of other point of view. I believe that the mission for the chaptors is to support free media.. But with keeping logo's protected under all right reserved that aren't giving a good example. I can understand that the official Wikimedia logos aren't free. But a logo for

Re: [Commons-l] Pikiwiki project problems

2009-06-04 Thread Abigor
Gerard, Did you even check things before you are shouting? The first English page on the pikiwiki website say's "This project is a joint venture of the Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL), the Israeli Wikimedia chapter and the Center for Educational Technology (CET) as part of promoting the

Re: [Commons-l] Pikiwiki project problems

2009-06-04 Thread Abigor
Gerard, The PikiWiki project is lead by three organisations and not only wikimedia Israel. I don't think the problem is Commons accepting the project. But even if we see it as one of our sisterprojects it still needs to follow Commons Policies. The same counts for En.Wiki the can't upload fair us

Re: [Commons-l] Pikiwiki project problems

2009-06-04 Thread Abigor
I am the admin that blocked Drork for 72 hours. The reasson I blocked him is very simple... He is/was removing Deletion template from images pages and that ended on several places in a editwar. By removing templates he did made him self a danger for the system Commons works with. He was warned s

Re: [Commons-l] Pikiwiki project problems

2009-06-04 Thread Abigor
Hello, I fail to see why the Foundation is involved. The bot isn't giving enough information regarding source and permission and is therefor blocked by policy. That Drork decided to go to the Foundation is just a stupid action, he could better spend his time fixing the bot... I think the project

Re: [Commons-l] Policy

2009-02-15 Thread abigor
Thanks Finn R, Your answer helped, Best regards, Huib _ Van: commons-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:commons-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Finn Rindahl Verzonden: zondag 15 februari 2009 14:58 Aan: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List Onderwerp: Re: [Commons-l] P

[Commons-l] Policy

2009-02-15 Thread abigor
Hello, I need some information I can't really fin don Commons. We have a policy that says you have to do 5 admin actions in 6 months to keep your adminship, we have sererval users that doesn't have any admin actions for more than a year, can those user be desysoped on Meta or is there a o

[Incubator] Hotcat

2009-02-13 Thread Abigor
Hello, I would like to inform you (and send a email to the list that hadn't received a email for more than a month) that I just installed HotCat.js on Incubator . Hotcat is a tool that makes categorizing much more easy J You can find it under your settings and than under gadgets. B

[Commons-l] Rollbacker

2009-02-10 Thread abigor
Hello, There is a discussion about activation Rollback for non admins here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Rollback Your opinion is much appriciated. Best regards, Huib ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists

Re: [Commons-l] Vandalism

2009-01-20 Thread Abigor
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > abi...@forgotten-beauty.com wrote: >>> You could always get an anti-vandal bot set up, which may be able to >>> spot >>> vandalism faster than any human could. Obviously it wouldn't catch >>> everything, but it's worth a try. >>> >>> -- >>> Ale

Re: [Commons-l] Vandalism

2009-01-20 Thread abigor
> You could always get an anti-vandal bot set up, which may be able to spot > vandalism faster than any human could. Obviously it wouldn't catch > everything, but it's worth a try. > > -- > Alex > (User:Majorly) I don't think a bot could get this kind of vandalism. Using a page blanking bot could

Re: [Commons-l] [Fwd: Pikiwiki - Israel free image collection project - Starting engines]

2009-01-13 Thread abigor
Hello, I like the idea but this sound very very bad: Anyone who is willing to contribute his images can open an account there and declare that the pictures are his own and that he is willing to release them either to the public domain or under cc-by-2.5 How can we check if the images are really