[Foundation-l] [slightly OT] how to make a nice(r) copyright law for Europe...

2010-04-28 Thread Mathias Schindler
http://www.copyrightcode.eu/ The European Copyright Code is the result of the Wittem Project that was established in 2002 as a collaboration between copyright scholars across the European Union concerned with the future development of European copyright law. The project has its roots in an Interna

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

2010-08-11 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Abbas Mahmoud wrote: > Not only the Middle East, but the Muslim population at large will not dare > step into Israeli soil. Hey, isn't this already progress when they acknowledge the soil to be Israeli? :) ___ foundati

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

2010-08-11 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Abbas Mahmoud wrote: > > What some people from the are afraid of is not entering Israel; but the > consequences of them entering Israel (eg being barred entry to Dubai as a > result of prior travel to Israel). At least some states are offering secondary passport

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 14:56, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > 2011/10/4 Thomas Morton : >> I think this is a prime opportunity to point out to those concerned: >> Wikipedia is hosted in the US :) so no need to worry! >> > > Are you sure? Contributors lives mainly in Italy, so they have to > follow Italian

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 22:19, Nathan wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:15 PM, teun spaans wrote: >> Isn't this premature? As I understand, the law is still being discussed, not >> yet in affect. >> > > It's a protest, they are hoping to influence whether the law is passed or not. How many inches

Re: [Foundation-l] Blanking a Wikipedia, a very bad idea

2011-10-04 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 22:32, Fred Bauder wrote: > No, it is a very good idea. The public needs to know what is at stake. It > would be nice if it were otherwise, but most people only learn by > experience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_where_English_is_an_official_language make

Re: [Foundation-l] Blanking a Wikipedia, a very bad idea

2011-10-04 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 22:55, M. Williamson wrote: > Another important point here is that Wikipedia is an international project; No, this is not another important point, this is exactly my point. Is the Kiribati based community (or a part of it) of Wikipedians allowed to block en.wikipedia.org fo

Re: [Foundation-l] Blanking a Wikipedia, a very bad idea

2011-10-04 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 23:08, Jalo wrote: > You're right, 2-3% of it.wikip users live outside of Italy, but this new law > will affect every page in which a user that live in Italy save a single page > version (that is 100% of articles). Then can you specify the threshold for the community-ratio

Re: [Foundation-l] Europeana and public domain

2011-10-25 Thread Mathias Schindler
Please note that this policy statement is dated May 2010, it does not appear to be changed since then (hurray.) Mathias ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Considerations for museums and archives to gain their cooperation

2009-03-29 Thread Mathias Schindler
2009/3/30 Gerard Meijssen : > My question is, will it be acceptable when a museum or archive provides us > with their material and when we learn about a request to take down material, > we do this when requested by the copyright holder.  This is not considered > an issue with Flickr !! A museum s

Re: [Foundation-l] Considerations for museums and archives

2009-03-30 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Klaus Graf wrote: > There is a very dangerous opinion that "work" according free licenses > means "work in any resolution" and thus low-resolution pictures > licensed under a free license could be replaced by high-resolution > pictures. As long as this remains a

Re: [Foundation-l] British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies sides with NPG

2009-07-28 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=866109 > I am getting timeouts on this server. Does any have copy of their statement for me? Mathias ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@

Re: [Foundation-l] GLAM-WIKI report

2009-08-12 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Tim Starling wrote: > As far as I know, only one speaker expressed a completely contrary > opinion to the general mood of the conference, and that was Ian > MacDonald of the Australian Copyright Council. He started his opening statement with his intention to act a

Re: [Foundation-l] Election Results

2009-08-12 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Kat Walsh wrote: > Congrats to Ting and SJ -- and a thank you to Domas, who is not only a > good big scary sysadmin but also a good big scary board member. Congrats to the three (re-)elected board members and all the best for the upcoming term. The voting system s

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons reaches 5 million files

2009-09-02 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Hay (Husky) wrote: > Around 11:46 UTC we reached 5 million files on Commons! Not quite sure > which file is the 5th million, but this is one of the candidates: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kj%C3%B8benhavnsposten_28_nov_1838_side_1.jpg Does anyone else

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons reaches 5 million files

2009-09-02 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, effe iets anders wrote: > works fine here... The broken version was reverted, it is now working again. In case you want to test it, see the version history or get the following file: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/a/af/20090902125937!Kj%C3%B8b

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

2010-08-11 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Abbas Mahmoud wrote: > Yaroslav: X has no problem with Israel, there's even an embassy in country X, > from which he applied the visa, but since he is on a work permit in the > Middle east, the embassy sticks the visa on another paper.  Since the country > where

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

2010-08-11 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Moushira Elamrawy wrote: >> This is very constructive Mathias, however I prefer if we eliminate any >> judgmental tone towards governments or societies or persons. Agreed, we can leave that up to someone else. So back to the issue: a) is there anyone who wishe

Re: [Foundation-l] Page views

2010-10-18 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Przykuta wrote: >> Is there any explanation for the extraordinary jump in page views this >> month? >> >> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm >> > > If it is not a bug[1], I think it is newsworthy What was the day again when Google switched o

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

2008-12-23 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:06 PM, David Gerard wrote: > Britannica is notoriously antagonistic toward Wikipedia in its > advertising, but Brockhaus for instance isn't anywhere near as > obnoxious (they're not *fans* of Wikipedia, but they have more class > than to trash a perceived competitor the

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

2008-12-23 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:21 PM, David Gerard wrote: > Eek! What's happening to the content? > There are/were several ways to access the content of the actual core Brockhaus encyclopedia: 1. Buy the book. 30 volumes, 2700€ - 3100€, depending on your payment plan: http://www.brockhaus.de/enzykl

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

2008-12-27 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Do we know people at Arvato? SJ Yes (more precisely: at Wissen Media and at InmediaOne] ) Mathias ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikime

Re: [Foundation-l] What to do with moribund languages?

2009-01-04 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > The notion that a language is moribund is problematic. A language is moribund as long as no-one speaking natively that language is objecting. This non-arbitrary definition has become de-facto standard since the street paving process

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraiser update

2009-01-07 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Brian wrote: > I challenge you to find 1% as many negative blog posts regarding the > fundraiser as there are positive comments left by donors. Apart from that interesting debate between you and geni, I had the personal impression that this year's fundraising dri