2012/3/7 Marcin Cieslak
> I researched recently some material related to a recent catastrophic
> event in Polish railway history[1] and I found out that volunteers
> who traditionally dealt with railway matters on Polish Wikipedia
> have virtually disappeared.
Thought provoking, thanks a lot for
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:32 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:06 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>> On 6 March 2012 00:57, phoebe ayers wrote:
>>
>>> Well, in my opinion I haven't given much indication of what I
>>> personally think on the issue at all, as I often explicitly ignored
>>>
[ Please excuse me if the subject has already been beaten to
death here; I am not a regular visitor to this mailing list
I tried to search for this stuff here & on strategywiki, but
feel free to point me to the archives! ]
I researched recently some material related to a recent catastrophic
ACTA appears to be failing precisely because it was approved in smoke
filled rooms and merely rubberstamped by politicians after the
agreement. The real "snake in the grass" is still OPEN. They "make
believe" they are crowdsourcing the law phrasing. But it smells
precisely like the pathetic Britann
A few weeks ago, there was a lot of fuss about TPP here in Chile because of
the secret negotiations. A lot of comparisons with SOPA, PIPA and ACTA were
raised and also criticism about it.
After the campaign against the TPP, the Chilean government published a memo
saying that intellectual propierty
Seems worth a forward given that it mentions the SOPA protest as one of
the main causes for a better acceptance of sensible copyright lobby
(true or not?).
Nemo
Messaggio originale
Oggetto:Blood in the water: Brett Smith reports from the latest
Trans-Pacific Partnersh
I've notified the WMF legal department.
Ryan Kaldari
On Mar 6, 2012, at 8:49 AM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" wrote:
> John Vandenberg, 06/03/2012 10:23:
>> The problem isnt that they are providing ebooks, but
>>
>> 1. they are "By Wikimedia Foundation"
>> http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/wikimed
John Vandenberg, 06/03/2012 10:23:
The problem isnt that they are providing ebooks, but
1. they are "By Wikimedia Foundation"
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/wikimedia-foundation
2. they are poor quality, or dont work
The second is their problem, but the first is clearly untrue and
illeg
> Partly, as I said, wanting to represent the board consensus. Partly
> because things were so very uncivil in the heat of it. I got called
> (among other things) an ugly American, a prude, freedom-hating, and a
> poor representative of my profession. I just didn't feel like
> dignifying any of tha
News and notes: Chapter-selected Board seats, an invite to the Teahouse, patrol
becomes triage, and this week in history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-03-05/News_and_notes
In the news: Heights reached in search rankings, privacy and mental health
info; clouds rem
Liam,
Regarding the word convening, WMF has held one with the Arabic Wikipedia folks
in Qatar. Check this blog to better understand the term/context:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/23/arabic-wikipedia-convening/
--Abbas.
> From: liamwy...@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 09:57:27 +
> T
I would suggest, quietly, that these books suggest that we endorse their
use of the work. There's also the issue of our 'moral rights', which in
some countries would mean that we could get our names removed from the
text
Richard Symonds
Office& Development Manager
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 207
On 3 March 2012 10:34, Chris Keating wrote:
> >
> > 23, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > on February 3, the Wikimedia Foundation senior staff gave a
> > > presentation to the Board of Trustees as part of its Board meeting in
> > > San Francisco, recapping the fisc
The problem isnt that they are providing ebooks, but
1. they are "By Wikimedia Foundation"
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/wikimedia-foundation
2. they are poor quality, or dont work
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wikibooks-wikimedia-founation/1029279842
"I hardly ever write negative review
So, correct WMF is not the author and this should be changed. Listing people as
editors of a book using material from WP or any other project is acceptable.
The terms of use and licenses simply require the appropriate attribution and
you'd need to buy the book to confirm if this has or hasn't b
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Chris Keating
wrote:
>
> Thanks for this - very interesting :-)
>
> For me, the most reassuring part is at the end. (It feels a bit odd
> highlighting this, given the amount of cool stuff in the report, but I
> suppose it's cool stuff I already knew about). I am ve
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