Re: [Foundation-l] Is there a good reason to delete the Burj Al Arab?

2011-03-13 Thread Hans A. Rosbach
On 13 March 2011 22:14, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 13 March 2011 18:25, Hans A. Rosbach wrote: > >> The English Wikipedia has a fair use policy, I know of no other > Wikipedia > > that has one. The statement "We can claim fair use when using images like > > that

Re: [Foundation-l] Is there a good reason to delete the Burj Al Arab?

2011-03-13 Thread Hans A. Rosbach
images is little. The most visible Wikipedia already have pictures, asking for free images for Wikipedia thus gets harder. Solidarity from the English Wikipedia would in the short term mean less illustrations in the most visible page on the search results, but I believe in the long term it wo

Re: [Foundation-l] Is there a good reason to delete the Burj Al Arab?

2011-03-13 Thread Hans A. Rosbach
On 13 March 2011 15:30, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 13 March 2011 12:06, Marcus Buck wrote: > > The upside is, that we won't get sued by copyright holders, I guess. > > Actually, the upside is that our reusers won't get sued by copyright > holders. We can claim fair use when using images like that

Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

2010-11-12 Thread Hans A. Rosbach
n, if for no other reason than for strengthening ourselves. Hans A. Rosbach no:user:haros ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-07 Thread Hans A. Rosbach
On 7 June 2010 23:16, Howie Fung wrote: > > > So in terms of a path forward, here is a proposal: > 1. Immediate revert so that all languages are exposed by default. > 2. We will continue work on a compromise solution. The current > interface is probably not perfect, so we’ll be continuing to l

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-05 Thread Hans A. Rosbach
for a minority, but that to that minority they are of vital importance. Your compromise is not good enough for that minority. You might as well remove the edit links because just a minority of visitors to this site actually uses them. Hans A. Rosbach (Use