Re: [WikiEN-l] Creative Commons 4.0 draft--please help answer questions about attribution!

2012-05-11 Thread Kat Walsh
As has been posted here before, CC is working on version 4.0 of their licenses--in case you haven't seen it, the public draft is up in several different formats at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0_Drafts Right now their focus is on attribution, and they are asking several specific questions

[WikiEN-l] Creative Commons wants your input on the 4.0 license process

2011-12-11 Thread Kat Walsh
Creative Commons is beginning the process of revising their suite of licenses, with the goal of having a 4.0 version by the end of 2012: https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/30676 They have a set of goals, including better internationalization, better interoperability with other licenses,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Age fabrication and original research

2009-09-29 Thread Kat Walsh
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: The soundbite I use is that Wikipedia outsources truth. The debate about what is or isn't true is not ours but is played out amongst the various sources that we can draw upon as references. Good soundbite. :-) -Kat --

Re: [WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

2009-08-19 Thread Kat Walsh
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Lunalunasan...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:07 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: OK the other side of the argument is Wikipedia is not paper.  That is, presumably, that we have a virtually unlimited amount of space in which to describe whatever we

Re: [WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

2009-08-18 Thread Kat Walsh
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Charles Matthewscharles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Thomas Dalton wrote: Well said. That debate was resolved back in the days when we actually reached consensus occasionally! There are too many people for that to work, these days. However hard you try, you

Re: [WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

2009-08-18 Thread Kat Walsh
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:54 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/18 Cathy Edwards cathy.edwa...@bbc.co.uk: I think I have a good idea why BLP are a hot topic of debate in this area, It's because they're special, because they can cause  (and have caused) damage to people in a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

2009-08-18 Thread Kat Walsh
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:07 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/18 Kat Walsh mindspill...@gmail.com: This is about 95% of the truth, actually. Other articles *can* cause harm in exactly the same way, but are not as obvious or attractive a target. Mmm. BLPs became special

[WikiEN-l] Google Chrome to support Ogg Theora video natively

2009-05-28 Thread Kat Walsh
Another step towards an open web -- Google's Chrome browser is going to support Theora video natively with the HTML5 video tag: http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/05/google-chrome-3-adds-html5.html http://codereview.chromium.org/115625/diff/1/2 (Mozilla has already committed to this--and

Re: [WikiEN-l] xkcd

2009-02-20 Thread Kat Walsh
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvards...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Judson Dunn cohes...@sleepyhead.org wrote: For your comedy pleasure :) http://xkcd.com/545/ chaos! :) Ahh, but Black-Hat Man hasn't anticipated our response! We'd delete