Trademark worries, again

We need a policy on trademarked images to be clearly defined, and if
there is one, it needs to be publicised somewhere prominant - are
trademarked logos which claim to be under a free license really free, or
are they violating copyright? Case in point, I've just deleted
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Exquisite-redhat.png and moved
it to en: per an offical request from Redhat.

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Re: Trademark worries, again

I'm not sure if we have a policy or not.

Personally, drawn logos like this are unacceptable for commons, and
contrary to established practise which is to use them under fair use
on the en: Wikipedia.

I am inclined to also count in this category photos of an object
bearing a trademarked logo in which the whole intent is to picture the
logo.  Quite aside from trademark law, such images are likely to count
as copyright infringement if the subject is copyrighted, which
many/most logos will be.  Logos first used in the United States when
the law requiring a copyright statement for copyright protection was
still in effect may not be protected by copyright law, but I'd say we
should simply be safe and avoid all marginal cases.

Aside from those cases, I would personally not bar an image from
commons because a trademarked logo or indeed other trademarked aspect
appears in it.

Any photo in which a trademarked item appears in it MAY not be usable
in all commercial contexts, but I do not think that commons should
only consist of images safe to use in commercial advertising.

In an encyclopedia context, or any reference work, such appearance of
trademarked items is quite legal, I believe.

-Matt

On 2/8/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax@...> wrote:
> We need a policy on trademarked images to be clearly defined, and if

Volunteers needed for the Wikimania Program Team

This is a call for volunteers to join the Program Team for Wikimania
2006 <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006>, the second
international Wikimedia conference, to be held in Boston this August.

The Program Team are responsible for creating the program, inviting
keynote speakers, reviewing proposals for presentations, workshops,
and papers, organizing the speakers when they arrive at the
conference, and related tasks.

A call for papers
<http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_papers> was recently
distributed, so we are looking for people willing to help review these
papers as they arrive in Indico <http://cfp.wikimania.wikimedia.org/>.

Please add yourself to
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006/Program_Team> if you
can help.

I am sending this to all project lists since I'm especially trying to
find 3 more people for the theme of "Wikimedia projects and content".

Angela.

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Different skins for pages within the same Wiki

Hi all,

Is there a way to use different skins for pages within the same Wiki?

Best

Jorge

Re: Different skins for pages within the same Wiki

Jorge Sánchez Seijo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there a way to use different skins for pages within the same Wiki?
> 

Take a "title=" URL (eg.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page) and append
"&useskin=(name of skin)", eg:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=cologneblue
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=monobook
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=simple
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=amethyst
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=chick
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=nostalgia
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=myskin

HTH,
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Re: Different skins for pages within the same Wiki

Thanks Alphax.

Is it possible to statically assign these skins to the pages instead of 
doing it by means of links? I'm trying to use different watermarks for 
different pages.

>From: "Alphax (Wikipedia email)" <alphasigmax@...>
>Reply-To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l@...>
>To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l@...>
>Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Different skins for pages within the same Wiki
>Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:10:52 +1030
>
>Jorge Sánchez Seijo wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there a way to use different skins for pages within the same Wiki?
> >
>
>Take a "title=" URL (eg.
>http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page) and append
>"&useskin=(name of skin)", eg:
>
>http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=cologneblue
>http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=monobook
>http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=simple
>http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=amethyst
>http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=chick
>http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=nostalgia
>http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=myskin
>

Noise when executing texvc

Hi

I'm running Mediawiki version 1.5 in Microsoft Windows XP Professional.
I have successfully compiled the .ml files and created the 'texvc' 
executable using MinGW 3.8 and Objective Caml version 3.09.
To run 'texvc', I use MiKTeX version 2.4 and ImageMagick version 6.2.6.
I'm running 'texvc' directly in the shell using the operator ' ' (equivalent 
to shell_exec).
The problem is that I can't remove the "noise" generated by the different 
transformations required to create the '.png' image. Therefore, the output 
of 'texvc' includes all this "noise" when it's called from 'Math.php' and so 
an error is raised, even though the image is actually created.
For example, I get all these messages before the html and mathml code that 
'texvc' gives as output:

"entering extended mode (C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\article.cls Document Class: 
article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class 
(C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\size12.clo)) No file 
2996_b9ae0993d885de5b479973758b8aba0d.aux. [1] 
(2996_b9ae0993d885de5b479973758b8aba0d.aux) ) Output written on 
2996_b9ae0993d885de5b479973758b8aba0d.dvi (1 page, 268 bytes) . Transcript 
written on 2996_b9ae0993d885de5b479973758b8aba0d.log"

It seems that the '-quiet' option of latex is not working ... Any ideas?

Best

Jorge

Re: Noise when executing texvc

Jorge Sánchez Seijo wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm running Mediawiki version 1.5 in Microsoft Windows XP Professional.
<snip>

Um, try wikitech-l@... - commons-l is for discussion about
Wikimedia Commons. Sorry.

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