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4. Is the community willing to delete files that do not comply to compatibility (given the rightholders can't change them)?You made a logical mistake here. I, the author can license a file under the cc-nc-sa-3.0 and the cc-by-sa-2.5 and the GFDL and whatever more license I want.I'll give you an example: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:GFDL-CC-tripleThis "licence template" is invalid since licencing a work by CC-BY-SA Unported 3.0 and CC-BY-ND Generic 2.5 is not possible ( http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#If_I_derive_or_adapt_a_work_offered_under_a_Creative_Commons_license.2C_which_CC_license.28s.29_can_I_apply_to_the_resulting_work.3F )I've not checked all the combinations throughout the Commons. Yet this example is one of those licence templates that has to be deleted ASAP (yes I'm aware of it nomination for deletion).My question is whether we as a community are willing to delete files that obiviously don't comply to the compatibility issues. Or if this will end in a "licence migration" which already happened for GFDL ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GFDL_1.3_relicensing_criteria ).
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Hello everyone,
I am pleased to announce the beginning of Steward Election 2012 [1]. We are now taking nominations from eligible candidates. Interested candidates can check their eligibility and procedure to submit the nomination on the guidelines page [2]. We are open to candidate submissions till January 28, 2012, 23:59 (UTC). Questions to the candidates can be submitted until February 6, 2012, 23:59 (UTC). Guidelines about questioning can also be found on our guidelines page [2].
This time we are also arranging the confirmation of existing stewards [3]. But the confirmation will begin on February 8, and will finish on February 27, 2012.
Please remember, the voting has not yet begun and will be not until February 8, 2012, 00:00 (UTC). We will poke you once again when the voting start.
As you all know steward election is a global event, so we need help from volunteers to translate necessary pages into languages they speak. For those who want to help us out with translation, please see our translation portal [4]. And if you have any queries related to translation or anything related to the election, you can ask us on the talk page [5]. Alternatively you are free to poke us on IRC channel #wikimedia-stewards-elections.
For those who are a little bit surprised to see another election in few months, I want to let you know that previous one (in September-October of 2011) was a special one which we arranged in need. This is the regular one to elect new stewards and to confirm existing ones.
Please feel free to forward this e-mail to any list if you think it will be useful. 
Regards,
Tanvir Rahman
Wikitanvir on Wikimedia
(On behalf of the Election Committee.)
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2012
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2012/Guidelines
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Confirm/2012/en
[4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2012/Translation
[5] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Stewards/Elections_2012
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Dear all, I am delighted to announce that the first-ever travelling POTY pictures exhibition, organised by Wikimedia Poland, is moving to yet another Polish city. Starting next Wednesday, January 18, 16 images chosen in the annual POTY contests are going to be shown at the Municipal Public Library in [[Bytom]] in the south, less than 90 km from the Czech Polish border. As some of you may recall, the exhibition premièred during the 10th anniversary of the Polish Wikipedia conference, held in Poznań last September, having been visited by a few hundred visitors in just two weeks. Our first stop outside Poznań was Przystanek Książka, one of Warsaw's media libraries, where the exhibition was shown from November 28, 2011 to January 11, 2012, and has been visited by over a thousand visitors (after making it to the main page of Gazeta.pl, one of Poland's most popular news sites)! With high hopes, we are now moving to Bytom, where the pictures are going to be showcased until February 18. The opening of the exhibition will be accompanied by a public lecture on Polish Wikipedia and a Wikipedia editing workshop for 50+ people, led by Wikimedian Paweł Marynowski ([[user:Yarl]]). For those of you currently living in the south of Poland or planning to visit the Upper Silesia Metroplex (e.g. Katowice) in the upcoming weeks: the library is located at 3 Jan III Sobieski Square in Bytom, just 400 metres north of Bytom Market Square, with direct public transport from Katowice (bus lines "820" and "830") and is open on working days from 8 AM until 7 PM (8 AM-3 PM on Saturdays). We are still looking for more organisations and institutions willing to hold the exhibition – and if there's anyone from the neighbouring (European) countries willing to get involved (we are particularly looking at our WMCEE friends now :)), feel free to approach me at <tomasz.kozlowski @ wikimedia.pl>. Regards, -- -- Tomasz Kozłowski | [[user:odder]] _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
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http://fentonville.co.uk/waverley/ Put up by a J.G.Ballard fan, but those who like old encyclopedias will enjoy this. The colour plates would definitely be of historical interest. I've suggested Commons and Wikisource to Mike Bosnall, but you don't need to wait on that to grab anything good. - d.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Gerard,_Heathrow_Terminal_5,_20110801_P1020447.jpg Who thought this was a good idea to automate? And how does one get this fixed? I can't even revert to a good copy. Has a list of these been made and human-checked? - d.
I've noticed recently a number of images that require rotation, usually photos that are in landscape orientation when they should be in portrait. What's weird is that in the articles, MediaWiki already "knows" the correct orientation and in some cases the file history even shows multiple uploads. It's hard to explain in words so here's an example:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castelo_Sao_Jorge_Lisboa_3.JPG
This image has been in the article since September 2006 so I can't imagine that nobody has noticed the wrong orientation for 5 years. Does anyone know what happened here? Is this related to the huge backlog for RotateBot?
Thanks.
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This may turn out to be a huge win for free culture if it's administered well. Many of the resulting resources may turn out to be useful for Wikibooks, Wikiversity and Wikimedia Commons. I'm especially pleased that they avoided adding non-commercial use restrictions. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26100 -- -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Hi all, A reminder that Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, will be having office hours Today in about 2 hours at 17:00 UTC (10:00 PDT, 13:00 EDT 19:00 CEST) on IRC in the #wikimedia-office channel. As usual the meeting will be an open format so bring your questions and comments! If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat using a web browser: First, using the Wikizine chat gateway at <http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. Or, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing #wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning, which you can click to accept. I hope to see everyone on IRC! -- -- James Alexander Associate Community Officer Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all, I know Steven just sent out a note for Barry's Friday office hours but this is in addition.Sorry for the late notice and for sending them out of order. Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, will be having office hours this Thursday (Tomorrow) at 17:00 UTC (10:00 PDT, 13:00 EDT 19:00 CEST) on IRC in the #wikimedia-office channel. If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat using a web browser: First, using the Wikizine chat gateway at <http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. Or, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing #wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning, which you can click to accept. Please feel free to forward and translate this email to any list I may have missed and I hope to see everyone online! -- -- James Alexander Associate Community Officer Wikimedia Foundation
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