Re: [Foundation-l] Europeana and public domain

2011-10-25 Thread Mathias Schindler
Please note that this policy statement is dated May 2010, it does not appear to be changed since then (hurray.) Mathias ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 14:56, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/10/4 Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com: I think this is a prime opportunity to point out to those concerned: Wikipedia is hosted in the US :) so no need to worry! Are you sure? Contributors lives mainly in

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 22:19, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:15 PM, teun spaans teun.spa...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't this premature? As I understand, the law is still being discussed, not yet in affect. It's a protest, they are hoping to influence whether the law is

Re: [Foundation-l] Blanking a Wikipedia, a very bad idea

2011-10-04 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 22:32, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: No, it is a very good idea. The public needs to know what is at stake. It would be nice if it were otherwise, but most people only learn by experience.

Re: [Foundation-l] Blanking a Wikipedia, a very bad idea

2011-10-04 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 22:55, M. Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: Another important point here is that Wikipedia is an international project; No, this is not another important point, this is exactly my point. Is the Kiribati based community (or a part of it) of Wikipedians allowed to block

Re: [Foundation-l] Blanking a Wikipedia, a very bad idea

2011-10-04 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 23:08, Jalo jal...@gmail.com wrote: You're right, 2-3% of it.wikip users live outside of Italy, but this new law will affect every page in which a user that live in Italy save a single page version (that is 100% of articles). Then can you specify the threshold for the

Re: [Foundation-l] Page views

2010-10-18 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Przykuta przyk...@o2.pl wrote: Is there any explanation for the extraordinary jump in page views this month? http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm If it is not a bug[1], I think it is newsworthy What was the day again when Google

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

2010-08-11 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Abbas Mahmoud abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: Not only the Middle East, but the Muslim population at large will not dare step into Israeli soil. Hey, isn't this already progress when they acknowledge the soil to be Israeli? :)

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

2010-08-11 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Abbas Mahmoud abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: What some people from the are afraid of is not entering Israel; but the consequences of them entering Israel (eg being barred entry to Dubai as a result of prior travel to Israel). At least some states are offering

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

2010-08-11 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Abbas Mahmoud abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: Yaroslav: X has no problem with Israel, there's even an embassy in country X, from which he applied the visa, but since he is on a work permit in the Middle east, the embassy sticks the visa on another paper.  Since

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

2010-08-11 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Moushira Elamrawy moushi...@gmail.com wrote: This is very constructive Mathias, however I prefer if we eliminate any judgmental tone towards governments or societies or persons. Agreed, we can leave that up to someone else. So back to the issue: a) is there

[Foundation-l] [slightly OT] how to make a nice(r) copyright law for Europe...

2010-04-28 Thread Mathias Schindler
http://www.copyrightcode.eu/ The European Copyright Code is the result of the Wittem Project that was established in 2002 as a collaboration between copyright scholars across the European Union concerned with the future development of European copyright law. The project has its roots in an

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons reaches 5 million files

2009-09-02 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Hay (Husky)hus...@gmail.com wrote: Around 11:46 UTC we reached 5 million files on Commons! Not quite sure which file is the 5th million, but this is one of the candidates: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kj%C3%B8benhavnsposten_28_nov_1838_side_1.jpg Does

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons reaches 5 million files

2009-09-02 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, effe iets anderseffeietsand...@gmail.com wrote: works fine here... The broken version was reverted, it is now working again. In case you want to test it, see the version history or get the following file:

Re: [Foundation-l] GLAM-WIKI report

2009-08-12 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Tim Starlingtstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: As far as I know, only one speaker expressed a completely contrary opinion to the general mood of the conference, and that was Ian MacDonald of the Australian Copyright Council. He started his opening statement with

Re: [Foundation-l] Election Results

2009-08-12 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Kat Walshk...@wikimedia.org wrote: Congrats to Ting and SJ -- and a thank you to Domas, who is not only a good big scary sysadmin but also a good big scary board member. Congrats to the three (re-)elected board members and all the best for the upcoming term.

Re: [Foundation-l] British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies sides with NPG

2009-07-28 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=866109 I am getting timeouts on this server. Does any have copy of their statement for me? Mathias ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Considerations for museums and archives to gain their cooperation

2009-03-30 Thread Mathias Schindler
2009/3/30 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: My question is, will it be acceptable when a museum or archive provides us with their material and when we learn about a request to take down material, we do this when requested by the copyright holder.  This is not considered an issue with

Re: [Foundation-l] Considerations for museums and archives

2009-03-30 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Klaus Graf klausg...@googlemail.com wrote: There is a very dangerous opinion that work according free licenses means work in any resolution and thus low-resolution pictures licensed under a free license could be replaced by high-resolution pictures. As long

Re: [Foundation-l] What to do with moribund languages?

2009-01-04 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, The notion that a language is moribund is problematic. A language is moribund as long as no-one speaking natively that language is objecting. This non-arbitrary definition has become de-facto standard since

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

2008-12-23 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:21 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Eek! What's happening to the content? There are/were several ways to access the content of the actual core Brockhaus encyclopedia: 1. Buy the book. 30 volumes, 2700€ - 3100€, depending on your payment plan: