Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.

2011-10-25 Thread Robin McCain
On 10/25/2011 2:57 PM, foundation-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > You've made quite a few incorrect assumptions there. > > Of course Commons editors should be deciding which images are PD. But > when there is a dispute, it makes no sense for people who don't even > know what a derivative wo

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising Community Appeal

2011-10-25 Thread Megan Hernandez
Quick reminder that the appeal from the community could use some help. A couple people have started so far. That's really great - thanks for helping out. Please take a couple minutes and share some thoughts. Send it around to anyone who might be interested. Thanks! Megan On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 a

Re: [Foundation-l] Global Fundraiser Test

2011-10-25 Thread Megan Hernandez
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Lodewijk wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for the extra info. It would be great if a more extensive timeline > could be entered into the actual information page. Dates I would be looking > for: > > * When should translations be finished for the first batch > The first batch

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Andreas K.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:55 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 25 October 2011 17:52, Andreas K. wrote: > > > For those interested, there is a current request for arbitration on > English > > Wikipedia related to the board resolution on controversial content, which > > contains some further views and

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Mateus Nobre
I think it's relative (like everything, anyway) When we were discussing about image filter I remember over one hundred-mails. It was a good discussion. It would be hilarious if someone speak ''Hey everybody, we exceed the thirty messages soft limit, let's end this discussion right now.'' :P S

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread David Gerard
On 25 October 2011 17:52, Andreas K. wrote: > For those interested, there is a current request for arbitration on English > Wikipedia related to the board resolution on controversial content, which > contains some further views and discussion. I have summarised my view that > our illustrations, j

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Andreas K.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Thomas Morton wrote: > > > > There was a 30 post per person monthly "soft" limit on foundation-l. > > > > My apologies; I was unaware of this soft limit. > > Happy to abide by it :) and I hope others will too! And, so, this should be > my last post for this month.

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Thomas Morton wrote: > >> I think people who think have got the point, but we still have to "whack > the mole" at trolls and endless griefers. > > I'm also annoyed at being characterised in this way by someone who has > maintained only the barest level of civility

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Thomas Morton
> > There was a 30 post per person monthly "soft" limit on foundation-l. > My apologies; I was unaware of this soft limit. Happy to abide by it :) and I hope others will too! And, so, this should be my last post for this month. FWIW I entirely agree that less vocal posters may be put off by large

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.

2011-10-25 Thread Anthony
>> ...a deletion discussion among >> non-professionals is not the proper way to determine the law. > > Neither is the opinion of a legal expert: That's the job of the courts. Courts are the proper way to determine the law after the fact. But this is a question of determining the law before the fa

Re: [Foundation-l] Europeana and public domain

2011-10-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
emijrp, 25/10/2011 12:30: > Looks like we have a big ally in the digitisation of public domain content > issue[1]: > > "The Europeana Foundation has published a policy statement, the Public > Domain Charter, to highlight the value of public domain content in the > knowledge economy. It alerts Europ

Re: [Foundation-l] Europeana and public domain

2011-10-25 Thread Liam Wyatt
Forwarding from Maarten Zeinstra (who is not subscribed to this list, I've cc'd him): I am not part of a European Wikimedia chapter. However, I am part of the Europeana R&D team on intellectual property. Europeana published its Public Domain Charter about a year ago and is steadily working towar

Re: [Foundation-l] Europeana and public domain

2011-10-25 Thread Liam Wyatt
Yes, Wikimedia Chapters (especially the Dutch - where they are based, and the Swedish - who have a joint project with them) are working with Europeana in a variety of ways. One example is how Wikimedia groups have hosted hackathons using their open datasets and API and (independently) won a prize f

Re: [Foundation-l] Europeana and public domain

2011-10-25 Thread Mathias Schindler
Please note that this policy statement is dated May 2010, it does not appear to be changed since then (hurray.) Mathias ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Europeana and public domain

2011-10-25 Thread emijrp
Dear all; Looks like we have a big ally in the digitisation of public domain content issue[1]: "The Europeana Foundation has published a policy statement, the Public Domain Charter, to highlight the value of public domain content in the knowledge economy. It alerts Europe's museums, libraries, ar