Re: [Foundation-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books

2012-03-14 Thread Russavia
Interesting news indeed. Lead's one to wonder when WMF will launch it's first printed encyclopaedia. Perhaps a 2013 Citation Needed edition is in the works? Russavia On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > 2010's 32-volume set will be its last.  (Now I w

Re: [Foundation-l] English Wikipedia considering declaring open-season on works from countries lacking US copyright relations

2012-02-23 Thread Russavia
Dunno about the implications for Iranian works, but I will say that these photographers: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Aviation_photographers_from_Iran would be none to happy to find their works being uploaded to English Wikipedia as being in the public domain. Russavia On

Re: [Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

2012-02-16 Thread Russavia
as a reliable source, >> especially for facetious comments. >> 2) Re: vodka - >> http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/429547_2604401508972_1222894747_32310964_1084040106_n.jpg >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Béria Lima wrote: >> > Actuall

Re: [Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

2012-02-16 Thread Russavia
/429547_2604401508972_1222894747_32310964_1084040106_n.jpg On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Béria Lima wrote: > Actually I believe the Poles stole your vodka, Russavia, because yor GNI > per capita is only 9,900  :P > _ > *Béria Lima* >  <http://wikimedia.pt/>(351) 925 171 484 >

Re: [Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

2012-02-16 Thread Russavia
Hi Tomasz It also wouldn't include Russia by the looks of it, given that Russians are apparently 4 bottles of vodka a year richer than Poles ;) On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > Hi, > > Wikimedia Polska (Poland) has just launched its own scholarships > programme for Wikim

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Articles In Uzbek Blocked

2012-02-16 Thread Russavia
Quite unusual, because I have just checked with two online contacts of mine who are in Uzbekistan, and both are able to access http://uz.wikipedia.org via their Uzbek ISPs without use of proxys, etc, etc. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: > http://www.rferl.org/content/uzbek_w

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

2012-02-16 Thread Russavia
Moller, Moeller, Möller Why is it that Горбачёв is Gorbachev, but Семён is always Semyon. Spare some thought for all the Semyons out there who may have their name mispelled. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Thomas Morton wrote: > I used to be really antsy over my name; to the point where,