[Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

2009-09-27 Thread Gregory Maxwell
Sue, I sent the below included inquiry to wikitech-l regarding http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/. Now almost a month later I still have received no response regarding the status of this test deployment. It is is still not active on the test site, — although this has literally gone on for mo

Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the Frenc...

2009-09-27 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 9/27/2009 5:51:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time, wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk writes: > I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full > resolution pictures of Public Domain works. > > That seems to be a demand to have the highest resolution copies possible.>> > >

Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the Frenc...

2009-09-27 Thread wiki-lists
wjhon...@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 9/27/2009 1:29:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk writes: > > >> I have a reproduction of Rembrandt's "Toby and Anna" whilst that >> doesn't give the producer of the reproduction the right to stop me >> making copies from i

Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the Frenc...

2009-09-27 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 9/27/2009 1:29:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time, wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk writes: > I have a reproduction of Rembrandt's "Toby and Anna" whilst that > doesn't give the producer of the reproduction the right to stop me > making copies from it, it also doesn't give me or you s

Re: [Foundation-l] CheckUser Abuse

2009-09-27 Thread Chad
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Ferrer wrote: > Checkusers in Russian Wikipedia abused the 'checkuser' rights (for > example linked to me unrelated edits from open proxy with marasmic > vandalism -- create marasmic attackpages-like topic on «Request for > Administrators» about Kalan, obviously wi

[Foundation-l] CheckUser Abuse

2009-09-27 Thread Ferrer
Checkusers in Russian Wikipedia abused the 'checkuser' rights (for example linked to me unrelated edits from open proxy with marasmic vandalism -- create marasmic attackpages-like topic on «Request for Administrators» about Kalan, obviously with a view to Kalan thought that I was a degenerat-pədera

Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the Frenc...

2009-09-27 Thread wiki-lists
wjhon...@aol.com wrote: > I thought that the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision basically was that a > reproduction like this enjoys no new copyright ? > I have a reproduction of Rembrandt's "Toby and Anna" whilst that doesn't give the producer of the reproduction the right to stop me making

Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the Frenc...

2009-09-27 Thread WJhonson
I thought that the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision basically was that a reproduction like this enjoys no new copyright ? W.J. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fou

Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the French cultural authorities

2009-09-27 Thread wiki-lists
Teofilo wrote: > David Monniaux said : "release lower resolution pictures under free > license, keep high resolution pictures (those suitable for art books, > posters and so on) proprietary." > > I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full resolution > pictures of Public Domain works. Bec

[Foundation-l] Abuse of CheckUser rights

2009-09-27 Thread Ferrer
Also, checkusers in Russian Wikipedia abused the 'checkuser' rights (for example linked to me unrelated edits from open proxy with marasmic vandalism -- create marasmic attackpages-like topic on «Request for Administrators» about Kalan, obviously with a view to Kalan thought that I was a degenerat-

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Abuse of CheckUser rights

2009-09-27 Thread Casey Brown
This is more of an issue for foundation-l than wikitech-l. On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Ferrer wrote: > Also, checkusers in Russian Wikipedia abused the 'checkuser' rights > (for example linked to me unrelated edits from open proxy with > marasmic vandalism -- create marasmic attackpages-lik