http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-November/032708.html
Requests have *doubled* since September. We're just about keeping up
with demand ...
And remember that this top-40 website is run by one paid admin/developer
and some volunteers on a shoestring by a nonprofit ...
- d.
to Grease Monkee <welloiledmachine(a)gmail.com>
Suppose Nice Guy's unblock carries a link back to Nice
Guy, the same as a link to watch a topic, that watches
out for any reblocking. So Hardass's efforts can be
negated as soon as they happen? and politically
motivated permablocks done as hastily as they are now
would be harder to make strick.
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It's been awful lately. It seems like every other page I load comes up with the Wikimedia error message. Also -- and somebody posted about this on [[Wikipedia:Help desk]], too, if I'm not mistaken -- I often have to click on a link twice to get it to load, otherwise it just sits there. I thought changing image servers was supposed to speed us up?
-Hermione1980
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Nyenyec N wrote:
>What is the definitive source to read about which image licenses are
>compatible with the GFDL?
>
>
There isn't one. The closest thing to a definitive source would be the
Free Software Foundation, but they don't really address the question.
They have a detailed list of which software licenses are and are not
compatible with the GPL, but their comments on content licenses are much
more limited. They don't address the question you're getting at because
their comments are limited to software and documentation (the original
purpose of the GFDL), and images are something other than simply
documentation.
>Or perhaps a GFDL text with non-GFDL images added doesn't count as
>derivative work?
>
>
This is a thorny question of interpretation without an easy answer.
However, the GFDL does allow independent works under other license terms
(including incompatible, non-free, and even proprietary licenses) to be
combined in GFDL content in an "aggregation" (Section 7 of the GFDL).
--Michael Snow
Admins,
I have been blocked by User:Dmcdevit eventhough I did not violate 3RR
rule on
Sher Shah Suri page. I have asked Dmcdevit for a reason but none has
come forth.
On Sher Shah Suri page some other users are engaging in revert wars. I
have provided
a book as a reference and a website which both agree and are based on
different
sources. Book is by Richard Saran and Norman Ziegler from UMich Ann
Arbor, both
Phd's who spent greater then a decade to research the book and then
published it.
Website is afghan-network.com which sources its materials from some
other historians
and not Richard and Norman. Though both these sources agree on the
history of
events related to SherShah.
These other users Taaoo/Wisesabre are pushing a one sided history of
SherShah
where they do not want any negative character of his to be portrayed.
I have
repeatedly asked them on the talk page to not censor anything or if
they dispute
my references they should give some citations of there own. They do not
provide
any books supporting there edits yet keep reverting.
WP:User: Shivraj_Singh
-Shivraj Singh
Hello
I just found the following image
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:RFJesus.jpg
which seems to be under a different sort of license, if I am not
mistaken.
I would like to include that image, in the corresponding German
wikipedia article, however so far people hesitated since they believe
that this license as expressed in the above url, would/could violate
the GDL. I find it odd that different wikipedias have different
standards concerning the license politics.
What can be done? May the simplest solution would be to contact the
artist (if he/she can be find) and ask for explicit permission.
Any comments, suggestions?
Uwe Brauer
kosebamse wrote:
>Alphax alphasigmax at gmail.com wrote at Tue Nov 15 12:15:00 UTC 2005:
>>What worries me is that with our growing popularity, we're going to have
>>more experts arriving on our doorstep, trying to write articles on their
>>specialist areas, and leave in disgust when some 2-bit moron votes "d,
>>nn. cruft".
>As far as I can say, that has always been a serious problem. It's not a
>matter of elitism. An expert who is used to discussing his views with
>well-informed people on an academic level will not enjoy the experience of
>having to defend basic and established knowledge of his field against
>schoolkids whose only expertise is with video games. I am offering no
>opinion on the desirability of it, but the latter probably form a very
>sizable fraction of our user base.
The problem here is the degree of it. The assumption of bad faith that
appears to be far too common on AFD has led to an expert being *driven
off* Wikipedia by people who are not only proudly ignorant, but are
doing their best to get anti-expert bias made policy and the way
things work around here.
- d.
Matt Brown wrote:
> I'm also not sure that WikiEN-l is the best place to attempt dispute resolution.
On the block message, wikien-l is one of the listed places to complain
about blockings.
- d.
[note cross-posting and prune as appropriate]
How difficult would it be to add <<title>> attributes to the Category links
which appear at the bottom of articles?
I was thinking it might be a good idea to have some way to display the "sort
key" without having to delve into edit mode, so I wondered if this could be
displayed as a "tool-tip" when hovering over the link, in the same way as
the destination article is shown for a regular wikilink. Is this an idea
which might be helpful, or am I getting punch-drunk after a difficult day?
--
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
