Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-18 Thread John at Darkstar
? > > - "John at Darkstar" wrote: >> From: "John at Darkstar" >> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" >> Sent: Friday, 17 July, 2009 20:38:09 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, >> Portugal >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] A

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-18 Thread Andrew Turvey
: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" > >> Sent: Friday, 17 July, 2009 20:38:09 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, > >> Portugal > >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and > >> systems > >> > >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-18 Thread Andrew Turvey
e: > From: "John at Darkstar" > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" > Sent: Friday, 17 July, 2009 20:38:09 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, > Portugal > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and > systems > > This

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-17 Thread John at Darkstar
This is a wikipedian from Norway. John Erling Blad Wikimedia Norway Chad wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Philippe > Beaudette wrote: >> On Jul 17, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Chad wrote: >> >>> Does anyone know the guy who owns enwp.org? >>> >>> That being said, enwp.org/?oldid=1234 does work :)

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-17 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > > On Jul 17, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Chad wrote: > >> Does anyone know the guy who owns enwp.org? >> >> That being said, enwp.org/?oldid=1234 does work :) >> >> -Chad > > > > (Asked whois.pir.org:43 about enwp.org) > >  Domain ID: D148943548-L

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-17 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Jul 17, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Chad wrote: > Does anyone know the guy who owns enwp.org? > > That being said, enwp.org/?oldid=1234 does work :) > > -Chad (Asked whois.pir.org:43 about enwp.org) Domain ID: D148943548-LROR Domain Name: ENWP.ORG Created On: 23-Aug-2007 14: 33: 18 UTC Last

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-17 Thread Jon Davis
I control enwn.net. We just set it up primarily for our Twitter feed. That being said, I've already had requests to make it available for external users - so that's in progress, and I can expand it to allow all WMF sites (not just wn). Otherwise it does support short redirects for CurID. Exampl

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-17 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Gray wrote: > 2009/7/17 Harald Krichel : > >> Shouldn't we set up our own URL-aliasing service? >> This would also have the advantage that you could be sure that the >> wikimedia shortened urls only lead to wikimedia domains. >> >> eg.: >> http://wp.cx/3tT5u7

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-17 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/7/17 Harald Krichel : > Shouldn't we set up our own URL-aliasing service? > This would also have the advantage that you could be sure that the > wikimedia shortened urls only lead to wikimedia domains. > > eg.: > http://wp.cx/3tT5u7Z > redirects to > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-17 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:14 AM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/7/17 Harald Krichel : > >> Shouldn't we set up our own URL-aliasing service? >> This would also have the advantage that you could be sure that the >> wikimedia shortened urls only lead to wikimedia domains. > > > I know of: > > http://enwp

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-17 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/17 Harald Krichel : > Shouldn't we set up our own URL-aliasing service? > This would also have the advantage that you could be sure that the > wikimedia shortened urls only lead to wikimedia domains. I know of: http://enwp.org/ http://enwn.net/ - d. ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-17 Thread Tris Thomas
Over at Wikinews, we've just started using a new url shortening service-enwn.net for our twitter feed. You'll need to talk to http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:ShakataGaNai if interested. On 17/07/2009 14:06, Chad wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Harald > Krichel wrote: > >> Peter

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-17 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Harald Krichel wrote: > Peter Gervai schrieb: >> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 01:32, John at Darkstar wrote: >> >>> Minimum attribution of «Terms of Use» from Wikimdia Foundations site >>> would be >>> " >>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use >>> http://crea

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-17 Thread Harald Krichel
Peter Gervai schrieb: > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 01:32, John at Darkstar wrote: > >> Minimum attribution of «Terms of Use» from Wikimdia Foundations site >> would be >> " >> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use >> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"; >> >> That is 96 chars,

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-04 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/4 Peter Gervai : > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 21:45, John at Darkstar wrote: >> There is a solution, and it is rather puzzling. The license talks about >> identification by an URI, and this can be defined several ways. We can >> simply define an URI like "Wikipedia:My article" or perhaps "cc:nn

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-04 Thread Peter Gervai
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 21:45, John at Darkstar wrote: > There is a solution, and it is rather puzzling. The license talks about > identification by an URI, and this can be defined several ways. We can > simply define an URI like "Wikipedia:My article" or perhaps "cc:nn" Not very much differen

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-03 Thread John at Darkstar
There is a solution, and it is rather puzzling. The license talks about identification by an URI, and this can be defined several ways. We can simply define an URI like "Wikipedia:My article" or perhaps "cc:nn" where the last is some kind of digital resource identifier for works licensed by Cre

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-03 Thread John at Darkstar
I know it is even worse for some other languages, but I don't think it is very interesting to calculate exact numbers for a couple of hundred languages. The most typical worse case for a SMS is 70 two byte chars. John Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Did you consider what this does in other script

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-03 Thread John at Darkstar
A url for a medium without a clickable link is, well, not an optimum solution. Obfuscated url isn't really any better, but it might be shorter. John Peter Gervai wrote: > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 01:32, John at Darkstar wrote: >> Minimum attribution of «Terms of Use» from Wikimdia Foundations site

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-03 Thread Peter Gervai
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 01:32, John at Darkstar wrote: > Minimum attribution of «Terms of Use» from Wikimdia Foundations site > would be > " > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"; > > That is 96 chars, with spaces, of 140 bytes available

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-03 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Did you consider what this does in other scripts ... the notion that it is a small number of characters is based on the notion that the script will be the Latin script.. Other scripts tend to show as the Unicode numbers.. Thanks, GerardM 2009/7/3 Brian > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:32 PM

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-02 Thread Robert Rohde
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Brian wrote: > I actually was not aware that the terms now ask you to link not only to the > article, but to the license as well. That is a burden. Linking to the license (or providing it's actual text) is an explicit requirement of CC-BY-SA. -Robert Rohde ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-02 Thread Brian
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:32 PM, John at Darkstar wrote: > >> Minimum attribution of «Terms of Use» from Wikimdia Foundations site >> would be >> " >> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use >> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-02 Thread Brian
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:32 PM, John at Darkstar wrote: > Minimum attribution of «Terms of Use» from Wikimdia Foundations site > would be > " > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"; > > That is 96 chars, with spaces, of 140 bytes avail

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-02 Thread John at Darkstar
Minimum attribution of «Terms of Use» from Wikimdia Foundations site would be " http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"; That is 96 chars, with spaces, of 140 bytes available in a SMS. For some languages the attribution will take more than o

[Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-02 Thread John at Darkstar
It seems like the attribution scheme chosen does not support small interactive devices and systems very Well. Are there anyone who have given this any thoughts? The problem is basically as the chunk of information shrinks the attribution scheme will be more and more of a problem. With the current