Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia is considering going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA

2012-01-13 Thread Dominic McDevitt-Parks
y represent the profession as a whole within the United States, issued a joint statement against SOPA, which you can read here: <http://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/bm~doc/lca-sopa-8nov11.pdf>. They highlight the fact that libraries could be subject to felony cr

Re: [Foundation-l] Frustration with WMF = WP

2011-11-02 Thread Dominic McDevitt-Parks
hese are the the sorts of things that are actual causes of frustration, not merely the fact that Wikipedia gets emphasized. This criticism is not specific to the mobile team, or even necessarily as relevant there as it is to some of the WMF's other activities. Dominic ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Frustration with WMF = WP

2011-11-02 Thread Dominic McDevitt-Parks
ssential in fulfilling its mission, and is notoriously bad at ever characterizing them as essential or trying to make them feel that way. Dominic On 2 November 2011 05:19, Billinghurst wrote: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-10-31/Technology_report > Wiki

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

2011-11-02 Thread Dominic McDevitt-Parks
pecial case, where they were donated to the institution; while NARA has a lot of graphic works (like the war posters), most of it is not purely artistic in origin, since they are US federal records. Dominic ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2011-10-24 Thread Dominic McDevitt-Parks
interest. For more information, check out the partnerships page on Commons < http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:National_Archives_and_Records_Administration>, and its sister WikiProjects on Wikipedia and Wikisource, linked in the tab header. Dominic [1] See the upload feed at < http://

Re: [Foundation-l] largest free content website

2011-07-08 Thread Dominic
On 7/8/11 4:40 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Dominic - this is from the Archivist's speech today. Is there a handy cite? > > S > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:38 PM, geni wrote: >> On 8 July 2011 16:47, Samuel Klein wrote: >>> Right. NARA has 5 billion pages

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiktionary-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

2009-03-25 Thread Dominic
m to discuss a new logo. There needs to be community impetus for the change, so that the meta discussion evolves out of actual community desire for a new logo. We should start at places like en.wikt's [[Wiktionary:Beer parlour]], fr.wikt's [

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Dominic
strators apply it at this point. The relevant policy is at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DP#Deletion_discussion> Dominic ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Handholding for new articles (Was: Re: 80% of our projects are failing)

2008-12-05 Thread Dominic
/index.php?action=edit&preload=Template%3Anew_en_basic&editintro=Template%3Anew_en_noun_intro&title=x&create=Basic>. This is especially important on Wiktionary where the format is more important and inflexible than Wikipedia, and it's also more esoteric. I think En