Imgur: Stolen Content and Social Media’s Double Standard

This isn't a long or comprehensive essay, by any means, but I thought
it was interesting counter example to the careful work done on
commons:

http://www.brentcsutoras.com/2010/02/08/imgur-stolen-content-social-medias-double-standard/

freedom of panorama question

Does anybody know the status for Freedom of panorama in Sri Lanka?

Fwd: Dear DifferenceBetween.net: international copyright law says you must provide attribution on all non-PD images you have copied from Wikimedia Commons

Hi all,

I am forwarding the below conversation to commons-l so it's known for
the record that I've warned the webmaster of DifferenceBetween.net
about their copyright violations.  Less than a day after they got my
email, they removed Ouda's image from
http://www.differencebetween.net/science/health/difference-between-crunches-and-sit-ups/
.  We will see if the webmaster adds caption lines for all other
infringing images, like the image in
http://www.differencebetween.net/science/difference-between-cellular-respiration-and-photosynthesis/
which is a copy of the dual CC-BY-SA/GFDL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Simple_photosynthesis_overview.svg.
If the webmaster doesn't, the next step is for us to send a variation
on http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Standard_license_violation_letter#Followup
and maybe to add a warning that we will contact his web hosting
provider (whois indicates that it's probably 1and1.com).  Actually, do
you think it's fine to add such a warning, or better not to?

Forwarded conversation follows.

Cheers,
--[[en:user:unforgettableid]]

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Subject: Dear DifferenceBetween.net: international copyright law says
you must provide attribution on all non-PD images you have copied from
Wikimedia Commons
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From: unforgettableid <unforgettableid@...>

Typical sample of our content

Dear all,

As part of the Multimedia usability project [1], we're going to set up a 
prototype environment, similar to the "sandboxes" used by the Wikipedia 
Usability initiative [2].

Importing all of Commons into the prototype would be overkill. As a 
consequence, we're looking for a small subset of content from Commons to 
use as a sample.

We would like to have a reasonable range of:
* filetypes
* file sizes
* licenses
* metadata

We don't necessarily need a wide range of topics.

Would you have any suggestion of category (or set of categories) to use 
for this purpose?

[1] http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia:About
[2] http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sandbox

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Product Manager, Multimedia Usability
Wikimedia Foundation
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Commons has reached 6 million files

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Announcing: Britain Loves Wikipedia

Hi all,

In case you haven't heard already, "Britain Loves Wikipedia", a free  
photography scavenger hunt following on from Wiki Loves Art et al.,  
will be taking place in 21 museums and archives across the UK  
throughout February, and is launching on Sunday at the Victoria and  
Albert Museum! Full details are now up on the WMUK blog, at:

http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2010/01/britain-loves-wikipedia/

and also the Britain Loves Wikipedia website at:

http://www.britainloveswikipedia.org/

Thanks,
Mike Peel
Wikimedia UK

PS: Apologies if you're not in the UK...

[Fwd: [Wikitech-l] image service switchover]

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Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation

Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

From: Ariel T. Glenn <ariel@...>
Subject: [Wikitech-l] image service switchover
Date: 2010-01-26 18:54:58 GMT

We are going to move image serving from ms1 (plus a few other
miscellaneous things that also live on that host) to the new much bigger
ms7 starting at 1 pm EST, 9 pm UTC.  

We expect 30 to 60 minutes of down time (= no uploads of media files).
Depending on how things go, reads of pages may be spotty as well during
this time.  

Any questions or comments, I'm in the #wikimedia-tech irc channel.

Ariel Glenn

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New request for Checkuser rights

Hi all,

In accordance with the Meta Checkuser policy, and in spite of the fact
that I am more a reader than a contributor on this mailing list, I would
like to inform you that I have been nominated for the checkuser rights
on Commons.
You are invited to express your opinion there:
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Checkusers/Requests/Eusebius>

Regards,
Eusebius

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AmalGLAMate

I'll just leave this here 

http://toolserver.org/~magnus/amalglamate.php

Britain Loves Wikipedia - Logo

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