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Liam Wyatt | 1 Apr 01:20
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Re: Considerations for museums and archives to gain their cooperation


On 01/04/2009, at 8:55, geni <geniice@...> wrote:

> 2009/3/31 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@...>:
>> Hoi,
>> The Romans and whoever in 1709 did not have photography nor did  
>> they have
>> Internet. The practice of considering digital re-use is definitely  
>> a recent
>> invention. Our current best practices were not in place until  
>> recently. The
>> notion that this can be expected of our recent past is interesting  
>> to say
>> the least it is not realistic.
>
> It's the same legal concepts.
That is disengenuius. To say that the Romans and we have "the same  
legal concepts" of copyright is as relevant as saying that [[Galen]]  
and us have the same concepts of medecine! They are our origins but  
completely irrelevant to our practical discussions now.
>
>
>> The notion that a commissioned work means a transfer of copyright  
>> is not
>> necessarily right. This has been considered in court in several  
>> countries
>> and this is not necessarily how it can be safely understood.
>
> Commissioned works thing can be messy yes but that is nothing new.
> Superboy for example.
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Michael Dale | 1 Apr 03:13
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add media wizard in testing / update

The add media Wizard is in testing see blog post:
http://metavid.org/blog/2009/03/27/add-media-wizard-and-firefogg-on-test-wikimediaorg/

If no one objects (or has any blocker bugs that I have missed) I will 
add the gadget option for firefogg / add media wizard to commons 
shortly. (for wider testing) We could also add the basic commons search 
as a gadget for wikipedia proper. (making commons image inserts much easier)
more about add_media_wizard: 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_Media_Wizard

The searching remote repository and in-line upload and template  via url 
component that is working on test.wikimedia.org is not as easy to push 
out. The implementation on  test.wikimedia.org is limited to files that 
it can copy in less than 30 seconds (php time out ) and is parsing html 
page output to determine errors.  To move the add media wizard searching 
and insert into production we will need to deploy the new-upload branch. 
I will be targeting fixes to upload bugs 18200, 18201, 18202 to the 
new-upload branch.

Looking beyond English language gadgets ...  Localization is dependent 
on the javascript script server which I will create a patch for core 
shortly.
more about js server:  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ScriptLoader

peace,
--michael
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Michael Dale | 1 Apr 17:21
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Re: add media wizard in testing / update

as some have pointed out its test.wikipedia.org ( not test.wikimedia.org )

Michael Dale wrote:
> The add media Wizard is in testing see blog post:
> http://metavid.org/blog/2009/03/27/add-media-wizard-and-firefogg-on-test-wikimediaorg/
>
> If no one objects (or has any blocker bugs that I have missed) I will 
> add the gadget option for firefogg / add media wizard to commons 
> shortly. (for wider testing) We could also add the basic commons search 
> as a gadget for wikipedia proper. (making commons image inserts much easier)
> more about add_media_wizard: 
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_Media_Wizard
>
> The searching remote repository and in-line upload and template  via url 
> component that is working on test.wikimedia.org is not as easy to push 
> out. The implementation on  test.wikimedia.org is limited to files that 
> it can copy in less than 30 seconds (php time out ) and is parsing html 
> page output to determine errors.  To move the add media wizard searching 
> and insert into production we will need to deploy the new-upload branch. 
> I will be targeting fixes to upload bugs 18200, 18201, 18202 to the 
> new-upload branch.
>
> Looking beyond English language gadgets ...  Localization is dependent 
> on the javascript script server which I will create a patch for core 
> shortly.
> more about js server:  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ScriptLoader
>
> peace,
> --michael
>
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Brianna Laugher | 4 Apr 23:54
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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] ANNOUNCE: OpenStreetMap maps will be added to Wikimedia projects

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@...>
Date: 2009/4/5
Subject: [Wikitech-l] ANNOUNCE: OpenStreetMap maps will be added to
Wikimedia projects
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l@...>, OSM-Dev
Openstreetmap <dev@...>, Talk Openstreetmap
<talk@...>

There has been rapid progress on the subject of adding OpenStreetMap
maps to Wikimedia projects (e.g. Wikipedia) during the MediaWiki
Developer Meet-Up[1] taking place right now in Berlin.

We now have a clear plan of action for getting OpenStreetMap maps
embedded in Wikimedia wiki (e.g. Wikipedia) pages:

* Wikimedia will set up a database to mirror the OSM data (Planet.osm)
* Wikimedia will set up its own rendering infrastructure for rendering
tiles & other maps from the OSM data
* The existing MediaWiki extensions for displaying OSM data in a
MediaWiki article will be improved to work acceptably in production on
Wikimedia servers

To prototype all this we'll be using new infrastructure provided by
Wikimedia Deutschland[2]. Once things have been tested there they'll
eventually be deployed on the main Wikimedia sites.

After discussion with the Wikimedia operations people (including Brion
Vibber, Mark Bergsma et al) there seem to be no objections to the
above plan as long as:
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Mark (Markie | 5 Apr 01:15

Wikimania 2009: Call for Participation reminder

Just to remind you all that the Call for Participation for Wikimania 2009
closes soon.  You can view the Call for Participation on the following page:
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation with many
translations available.

For more information about Wikimania 2009, see
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/

Regards

Markie
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Casey Brown | 5 Apr 01:19
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Wikimania 2009: Call for Participation reminder

Just to remind you all that the Call for Participation for Wikimania
2009 closes soon.  You can view the Call for Participation on the
following page:
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation with
many translations available.

For more information about Wikimania 2009, see
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/

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Yann Forget | 6 Apr 20:33

Court: Congress can't put public domain back into copyright

Hello,

This will have implications for Commons too.

Regards,

Yann

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:54 AM, GerardM <gerard.meijssen@...> wrote:
> Hoi,
> This is of sufficient merit that I do it this way.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> Aan u verzonden door GerardM via Google Reader: Court: Congress can't
> put public domain back into copyright via Ars Technica door
> nate@... (Nate Anderson) op 6-4-09
> In 1994, Congress jammed a batch of foreign books and movies back into
> the copyright closet. They had previously fallen into the public domain
> for a variety of technical reasons (the author hadn't renewed the
> rights with the US Copyright Office, the authors of older works hadn't
> included a copyright notice, etc.) and companies and individuals had
> already started reusing the newly public works. Did Congress have the
> right to put a stop to this activity by shoving the works back into
> copyright? On Friday, a federal court said no.
> "Traditional contours of copyright"
> 1994's Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) brought US intellectual
> property law in line with that of other countries. Section 514 of URAA
> better aligned US copyright law with the international Berne
> Convention, one of the earliest international intellectual property
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geni | 6 Apr 21:40
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Re: Court: Congress can't put public domain back into copyright

2009/4/6 Yann Forget <yann@...>:
> Hello,
>
> This will have implications for Commons too.
>
> Regards,
>
> Yann

No since commons respects the copyright of the country of origin.

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RKS Rathore | 7 Apr 11:23
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Requeat for sending some of my work Wikimedia

 
I and my wife have worked on Trees of Agra and have identified some 150 plants growing at various places including historical monuments, educational institutions, public parks, gardens, roadside and country side. We wish to donate this work to the common users hence our choice has fallen on Wukimedia. Will you please accept this work on yuor web? Awiting an early response
Ram Kishore Singh Rathore

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Daniel Kinzler | 7 Apr 11:30
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Re: Requeat for sending some of my work Wikimedia

RKS Rathore schrieb:
>  
> I and my wife have worked on Trees of Agra and have identified some 150
> plants growing at various places including historical monuments,
> educational institutions, public parks, gardens, roadside and country
> side. We wish to donate this work to the common users hence our choice
> has fallen on Wukimedia. Will you please accept this work on yuor web?
> Awiting an early response
> Ram Kishore Singh Rathore

Hello Ram,

please tell us what exactly you want to donate. Images of these plants? If so,
we will gladly accept  the donation, if you put the images under one of the free
licenses we accept. These licenses basically grant anyone the right to use the
image without restrictions, under the condition that the author is credited.

How many images do you have? And what kind of information about each can you
provide? Or is this not about images after all?

Regards,
Daniel
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