Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter on open letters (Was: Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA)

Look, I have no problem with the open letters from WM Venezuela, España or Israel. I might not agree 100% with everything in them, but they are generally on top of the issues, and they focus on the problems they law poses for us and our need for better solutions - all worth bringing to a wider audi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA

To be fair, Galio has apologised multiple times (not for the wording, but "if you feel offended") on the letter's meta talk page. There is much discussion there of what was really meant, and the problems with the l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Chris McKenna wrote: > > You've missed the point. Commons is not at present a reliable source of > media, Free or otherwise, because media gets deleted because once someone > alleges that it is not free it gets deleted if the original uploader cannot > prove it is f

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA

That would be wonderful. I imagine we would want to tag the images to indicate their copyright status in certain jurisdictions, and set up a mechanism so that projects can define which sorts of images they want to be able to embed in their local pages, and which they do not want (unless a locally E