Gregory Maxwell | 9 Feb 00:45
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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/
Vlad Stanimir | 4 Feb 07:04
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freedom of panorama question

Does anybody know the status for Freedom of panorama in Sri Lanka?
unforgettableid | 4 Feb 04:57
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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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Guillaume Paumier | 3 Feb 21:46
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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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Techman224 | 31 Jan 17:13
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Commons has reached 6 million files

Commons has just reached 6 million files! At 10:17, January 31, 2010, Sailing_on_Ullswater_-_geograph.org.uk_-_173422.jpg  became our 6 millionth file on Commons!
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Michael Peel | 29 Jan 00:09

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...
Cary Bass | 26 Jan 20:44
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[Fwd: [Wikitech-l] image service switchover]


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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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Eusebius | 25 Jan 11:42
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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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Magnus Manske | 21 Jan 22:45

AmalGLAMate

I'll just leave this here :-)

http://toolserver.org/~magnus/amalglamate.php
Joseph Seddon | 20 Jan 17:17

Britain Loves Wikipedia - Logo

Apologies for the cross posting.

Wikimedia UK, the UK chapter, is organising an event called Britan Loves Wikipedia Britain Loves Wikipedia is a cultural event bring organised in partnership between Wikimedia UK, the Collections Trust and the MLA (Museums, Libraries, Archives Partnership) starting on January 31 which will encourage members of the public to visit certain participating museums around the UK and photograph certain exhibits and make those photos available for use on Wikipedia, and other projects, through Wikimedia Commons. There will then be various prizes given out based on the pictures people produce. For this event, we need a logo. While we are getting quotes to have a professionally produced logo made, we would much prefer one produced by a member of the community. The community has produced excellent logos in the past and we are sure it will be able to provide us with one that is just as professional looking as what we could get by paying an enormous amount for it. If you would like to have a go, the brief is as follows:

* The logo must include the words ‘Britain Loves Wikipedia’
* The logo does not necessarily need to feature the Wikipedia globe
* The logo must work in black and white and colour
* The logo must not be year-specific

Unfortunately we have very limited time so deadlines for this project are as follows:

* Expression of Interest (and, ideally, a first draft of your idea or ideas) -- 12:00 midday UTC Thursday, January 21 2010
* Final Logo -- 23:59 UTC Sunday, January 24 2010

We understand that that doesn't give you much time, and we're sorry we didn't organise this sooner. Hopefully a few people can knock something up in that time! If you want to have a go, please let us know by following the link.

http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Britain_Loves_Wikipedia/Logo_submissions

Thanks!


Joseph Seddon
Wikimedia UK
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