Re: [Wikimedia-l] Passing of User:Belissarius

2015-11-06 Thread Samir Elsharbaty
So sorry to hear that! On Nov 6, 2015 9:45 PM, "Lila Tretikov" wrote: > condolences > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Shlomi Fish > wrote: > > > On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 13:52:54 -0800 > > Pine W wrote: > > > > > Colleagues, > > > > > > The Wikipedia community has received news of the passing of >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] TPP - copyright

2015-11-06 Thread Gergő Tisza
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > I don't see anything in the TPP requiring retroactive application of > copyright terms. We'll have to wait and see how the various countries > choose to apply the new terms. Applying terms retroactively is uncommon, > but possible. We also hav

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] TPP - copyright

2015-11-06 Thread Isaac David
Le ven. 6 nov. 2015 à 11:22, Ryan Kaldari a écrit : Applying terms retroactively is uncommon, but possible. Already happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia France board

2015-11-06 Thread Katy Love
Congrats! Welcome, Édouard! Thanks for sharing this update. On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:34 AM, Pierre-Selim Huard < pierre-selim.hu...@wikimedia.fr> wrote: > Dear movement fellows, > > Wikimedia France held its Annual General Meeting on October 24th, 2015. > During this AGM, we elected 4 board memb

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Passing of User:Belissarius

2015-11-06 Thread Lila Tretikov
condolences On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 13:52:54 -0800 > Pine W wrote: > > > Colleagues, > > > > The Wikipedia community has received news of the passing of > > User:Belissarius. He spoke Polish natively and English at a high level of > > proficiency

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Princess of Asturias Awards pics

2015-11-06 Thread Pine W
Nice photos. I'll see if I can squeeze a few into a Signpost gallery. On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Orsolya Gyenes < gyenes.orso...@wiki.media.hu> wrote: > Thank you VERY much, these are great ones! > > I was the one who asked for it. :-) > > *~Orsolya* > > 2015-11-06 17:23 GMT+01:00 Salvador

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Princess of Asturias Awards pics

2015-11-06 Thread Orsolya Gyenes
Thank you VERY much, these are great ones! I was the one who asked for it. :-) *~Orsolya* 2015-11-06 17:23 GMT+01:00 Salvador A : > Hi community. > > I don't know if somebody already shared this. I remember some of you asked > for photographs of the last Princess of Asturias Awards ceremony. Yo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advertising in Central notice?

2015-11-06 Thread Pete Forsyth
This is under discussion on Meta Wiki, and I made some changes this morning. Please be sure any significant comments are put on-wiki, where Meta admins and community are more likely to see them. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Requests_for_help_from_a_sysop_or_bureaucrat#Re:_Survey_powered_by_

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] TPP - copyright

2015-11-06 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I don't see anything in the TPP requiring retroactive application of copyright terms. We'll have to wait and see how the various countries choose to apply the new terms. Applying terms retroactively is uncommon, but possible. We also have no idea when these countries are actually going to apply the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] TPP - copyright

2015-11-06 Thread rupert THURNER
Europe harmonized it's copyright as well to 70 yrs for everything. It did not change an existing copyright state at the time when it is ratified by a countries law makers. Rupert ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wi

[Wikimedia-l] Princess of Asturias Awards pics

2015-11-06 Thread Salvador A
Hi community. I don't know if somebody already shared this. I remember some of you asked for photographs of the last Princess of Asturias Awards ceremony. You can find some in the next category in Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Princess_of_Asturias_Awards_2015_ceremony I wa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] TPP - copyright

2015-11-06 Thread David Gerard
Takes out the GPL too: http://keionline.org/node/2363 (yep, the TPP is every bit as good as we were expecting) I anticipate a sudden tech coalition at that one, which we should get in on. - d. On 6 November 2015 at 12:22, Gnangarra wrote: > We have a new problem to face in the coming months

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advertising in Central notice?

2015-11-06 Thread Patrick Earley
Hi Itzik, We placed that note as it is standard practice to let users know when a link will be taking them outside the Wikimedia projects. We linked to the Qualtrics privacy statement, as we felt that users should have access to that if they wanted to read it. Petefosyth has made some changes to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect is gone

2015-11-06 Thread Neil Harris
On 05/11/15 17:35, Quim Gil wrote: Superprotect [1] was introduced by the Wikimedia Foundation to resolve a product development disagreement. We have not used it for resolving a dispute since. Consequently, today we are removing Superprotect from Wikimedia servers. Without Superprotect, a symbol

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advertising in Central notice?

2015-11-06 Thread Mardetanha
​it was strange for me too, we never did such thing before​ Mardetanha On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Bence Damokos wrote: > My first guess would be that the company is mentioned as a way to notify > users that they will be sending data to an outside company if they click on > the link (but th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] TPP - copyright

2015-11-06 Thread 梁忠明
Possibly Wikilivres, a site which is used to store PD works in Canada (but copyrighted works in the USA, i.e. a work which the author died 50 yrs ago or published by an organization 50 yrs ago), is also being affected. When the TPP was under negotiation, I was thinking whether it should move its ba

[Wikimedia-l] TPP - copyright

2015-11-06 Thread Gnangarra
We have a new problem to face in the coming months assuming countries ratify the Trans Pacific Partnership https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership The text of the agreement has been released in the last 24 hours, early commentary is indicating that copyright changes will occur rest

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advertising in Central notice?

2015-11-06 Thread Bence Damokos
My first guess would be that the company is mentioned as a way to notify users that they will be sending data to an outside company if they click on the link (but the text you quote is not that clear on the privacy aspect here). Best regards, Bence 2015-11-06 12:33 GMT+01:00 Itzik - Wikimedia Isr

[Wikimedia-l] Advertising in Central notice?

2015-11-06 Thread Itzik - Wikimedia Israel
"We invite you to participate in a survey about online harassment on Wikimedia projects. *Survey powered by Qualtrics"* It's not the the first survey runs through the Qualtrics, but that's the first time I see credit to them. We most of the time, even in GLAM and others partnerships trying to avoi

[Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia France board

2015-11-06 Thread Pierre-Selim Huard
Dear movement fellows, Wikimedia France held its Annual General Meeting on October 24th, 2015. During this AGM, we elected 4 board members, of which 1 is new. Alexis Marise Bique, Ludovic Péron, Benoît Evellin and Léa Lacroix were not running for a new term. Wikimedia France board is grateful fo