Re: [Commons-l] non-free content in creative commons content

2011-09-02 Thread Aaron Adrignola
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:28 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: > Do we have a template to advise the reader which parts are not CC, > like we do for personality rights? > You could add image annotations over the areas that are not CC. Beyond that I'm not aware of a template for this particular situatio

Re: [Commons-l] non-free content in creative commons content

2011-08-31 Thread Aaron Adrignola
John, don't overthink it. Those logos would be de minimis: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:De_minimis -- Adrignola ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

Re: [Commons-l] Closed Timelike Curve

2011-07-28 Thread Aaron Adrignola
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:25 PM, David Gerard wrote: > There are open-source "similar picture" matchers. Running them over > the entire image archive might be an, ah, interesting experience. > Open source or not, TinEye and Google's "search by image" work just fine. http://tineye.com/ http:/

Re: [Commons-l] [cultural-partners] Museum of Photographic Arts on Flickr

2011-06-18 Thread Aaron Adrignola
Your quoted mails did not show any links and the "Cultural Partners" archives are not public. On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Béria Lima wrote: > was in the orginal message: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mopa1/ > _ > *Béria Lima* > (351) 925 171 484 > ___

Re: [Commons-l] [cultural-partners] Museum of Photographic Arts on Flickr

2011-06-18 Thread Aaron Adrignola
Link to the profile? The two I've found at Flickr are all "all rights reserved": http://www.flickr.com/photos/mopasd/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/fmopa/ -- Adrignola On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Béria Lima wrote: > Is there anyone doing the batch upload? > _ > *Béria Lima* > Wikime

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [FC-discuss] YouTube and CC BY

2011-06-02 Thread Aaron Adrignola
Good news indeed. I've had to have people add such licensing information in the description under videos for the few emails I've received in the OTRS system wanting to get permission for a transcoded YouTube video or a still image from one. -- Adrignola On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Samuel Kl

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-16 Thread Aaron Adrignola
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Cecil wrote: > Actually, Wikipedia is the educational project, not Commons. > Commons is a repository for media of all kind. There is nowhere the > restriction that a file has to be educational. > Related to another comment posted earlier, this section [1] also

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-16 Thread Aaron Adrignola
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Gnangarra wrote: > Please explain how does one participate when their employment contract > specifically states that viewing of sexually explicit material over the > internet is a dismissable offense. > I would like to see actual movement on the idea that there c

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-16 Thread Aaron Adrignola
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > I changed the picture. I'd like to note that I did this not owing to any > 'authority' I might have as a WMF employee, just as a regular person > associated with Commons. > > Actually, given that the template was cascade protected by vir

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-15 Thread Aaron Adrignola
Commons is not censored. It's a beautiful scene and it would be expected that the an imaginary tribal member would not have the American sensitivities to toplessness. Some images may offend. Some articles may offend. We're not going to compromise our core values just to try to close a "gap" tha

Re: [Commons-l] 2010 Picture of the Year Competition

2011-05-05 Thread Aaron Adrignola
I would have liked to have given a pre-start announcement for the competition, maybe a week before it started. However, another member of the competition had already worked on getting the global sitenotice set up to start displaying on April 30th, and by the time I realized this it was already the

[Commons-l] 2010 Picture of the Year Competition

2011-04-28 Thread Aaron Adrignola
Dear Wikimedians, Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2010 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2010. Any user registered at a Wikimedia wiki since 2010 or prior with more than 200 ed

Re: [Commons-l] Need to contact list owner

2011-03-24 Thread Aaron Adrignola
You can email commons-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org to contact the operator directly in the future. -- Adrignola On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Paul Houle wrote: > Hi, I'm really sorry to bring this up in public, but I'm in > contact with a person who has a serious concern about the com

[Commons-l] Picture of the Year 2010

2011-03-17 Thread Aaron Adrignola
There have been a few people posting to the village pump asking when the Picture of the Year 2010 competition would start. There were no names listed on the committee page or really anything done beyond some copying of the 2009 structure. I've taken the initiative and begun populating the galleri