Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-07 Thread Florence Devouard
To be fair, it's nice to see that they recognize their community has a value :) Flo On 9/6/12 4:40 PM, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton wrote: \o/ Nice! and I'm wondering how they will sue for importing content that is on free license... On 6 September 2012 10:21, Alice Wiegand

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Seeks Declaratory Relief in response to Legal Threats from Internet Brands

2012-09-07 Thread David Gerard
On 6 September 2012 14:48, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 September 2012 01:46, Kelly Kay k...@wikimedia.org wrote: Today the Wikimedia Foundation filed a suithttps://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:WMF_complaint_for_declaratory_judgement_September_2012.pdf I urge everyone to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Seeks Declaratory Relief in response to Legal Threats from Internet Brands

2012-09-07 Thread Theo10011
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:56 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 September 2012 14:48, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 September 2012 01:46, Kelly Kay k...@wikimedia.org wrote: Today the Wikimedia Foundation filed a suit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Seeks Declaratory Relief in response to Legal Threats from Internet Brands

2012-09-07 Thread Richard Symonds
Good luck to everyone concerned from the UK Chapter! James in particular has been doing some very interesting things in the UK recently, which we're very grateful for. As to the trademark infringement, I think it stems not from Wikivoyage, but instead from James' alleged use of the phrase Wiki

[Wikimedia-l] Monthly Report WMDE August 2012

2012-09-07 Thread Katja Ullrich
Hello everybody, Wikimedia Deutschland's monthly report for August is online in English now. For those of you who want to learn more about - our presence at the Wikipedia conference WikiConhttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon_2012 - who will help us with our next Fundraiser

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Seeks Declaratory Relief in response to Legal Threats from Internet Brands

2012-09-07 Thread Nathan
Reading through the IB filing, they aren't even bothering to structure a good case. It's all blather and no substance (claiming, for instance, that the defendants have been unjustly enriched by establishing a website with a name confusingly similar to WikiTravel; when of course no such site

[Wikimedia-l] Next one ? Re: Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-07 Thread Mathias Damour
Le 06/09/2012 15:21, Alice Wiegand a écrit : Hi all, on behalf of the Board of Trustees I'm glad to announce the following statement about the travel guide RfC http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide : Through the RfC, it is clear our community has reached consensus

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-07 Thread Daniel Zahn
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com wrote: and I'm wondering how they will sue for importing content that is on free license... Well, it's Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, so will have to attribute Wikitravel and the original author(s) on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-07 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 7 September 2012 20:40, Daniel Zahn dz...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com wrote: and I'm wondering how they will sue for importing content that is on free license... Well, it's Creative Commons

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-07 Thread emijrp
2012/9/7 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com On 7 September 2012 20:40, Daniel Zahn dz...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com wrote: and I'm wondering how they will sue for importing content that is on free

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-07 Thread Daniel Zahn
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: haven't been following too closely - are there any dumps available? It seems unlikely it will be possible to get any now (I doubt IB can be compelled to provide one). They just disabled their Special:Export page,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-07 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 7 September 2012 20:59, Daniel Zahn dz...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Why attribute Wikitravel? The license only requires the author to be attributed, not the first publisher. Ideally, content will be copied across

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-07 Thread emijrp
When we use 1911 Britannica texts, we only attribute to the encyclopedia, not its authors, so we can put This text comes from Wikitravel. Anyway, if we are going to use Wikitravel texts, writing a script to scrape just the usernames from histories is trivial

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-07 Thread Nathan
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:11 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: When we use 1911 Britannica texts, we only attribute to the encyclopedia, not its authors, so we can put This text comes from Wikitravel. Anyway, if we are going to use Wikitravel texts, writing a script to scrape just the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-07 Thread Deryck Chan
Just write Imported from Wikitravel and list the names of all page authors by scrubbing the Wikitravel page. Attribution given, problem solved! (okay, not the import practicality bit) On 7 September 2012 21:14, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:11 PM, emijrp

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-07 Thread emijrp
How to re-use Wikitravel guides http://www.webcitation.org/6AVYKMbhE Example of credits: http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Singaporeaction=credits 2012/9/7 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:11 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: When we use 1911 Britannica texts,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-07 Thread Michael Peel
On 7 Sep 2012, at 21:14, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:11 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: When we use 1911 Britannica texts, we only attribute to the encyclopedia, not its authors, so we can put This text comes from Wikitravel. Anyway, if we are going to use

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-07 Thread Stefan Fussan
We have a complete set of articles and pictures including the complete history (August 2012 just a day before they disabled the api). We are about to migrate all articles on Wikivoyage. A test of Wikitravel:en articles and wikitravel:shared pictures on Wikivoyage is running. So we have a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-07 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 7 September 2012 21:25, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: We encourage attribution of Wikipedia articles as: This article uses material from the Wikipedia article [[Metasyntactic variable]], which is released under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-07 Thread David Gerard
On 7 September 2012 20:47, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 September 2012 20:40, Daniel Zahn dz...@wikimedia.org wrote: Well, it's Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, so will have to attribute Wikitravel and the original author(s) on every single page.

[Wikimedia-l] Call for volunteers: 2012-2013 Audit Committee

2012-09-07 Thread Stuart West
As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation has an Audit Committee which represents the Board in oversight of financial and accounting issues, including planning, reporting, audits, and internal controls (see http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_committee for details). The Committee

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Seeks Declaratory Relief in response to Legal Threats from Internet Brands

2012-09-07 Thread Kim Bruning
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 01:26:06PM +0100, David Gerard wrote: My blog post, in which I emphasise that this is fundamentally an attack on CC by-sa and the freedom of free content: Your blog post somehow made its way to slashdot.