Wikilivres:Community Portal-en
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Нere we discuss in English. But for other languages let us create special Community Portals. Dmitrismirnov 03:14, 18 October 2007 (EDT)
- I agree. And what about other portals too (for instance : Poetry portal, XXth century portal, and so on) ? --Zephyrus 05:39, 19 October 2007 (EDT)
- This would be useful in the future, but for now it is propably too early. We are too small group. Dmitrismirnov 10:58, 19 October 2007 (EDT)
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[edit] Confusion
I think to avoid a mash, it is necessary to stop mixing of Russian/English/French texts once and for all. Givi 10:45, 30 October 2007 (EDT)
I do not see a confusion. As we all know, from 24 July 2007 the default language become English here (fefor this it was French). I find convenient that pages on any other languages including Russian are accessible to everyone who has no special knowledge of Cyrillics alphabet. I think it is right condition if we are going to keep this site at the international level. It also would be good to know the opinion of Yann. Dmitrismirnov 11:21, 30 October 2007 (EDT)
Mixing of texts in different languages is just not aesthetically. However, let's ask Yann at first. Givi 11:30, 30 October 2007 (EDT)
[edit] Project logo
We need to change logo! The current logo is very-very stock. Who have proposals? Givi 11:51, 30 October 2007 (EDT)
[edit] Accept Not-PD-US-URAA images here?
Hello to all! I am Jusjih as an administrator on 11 Wikimedia sites covering six types of Wiki projects. As there are uncertainties to images tagged with commons:Template:Not-PD-US-URAA I would like to request comments as to whether to accept them here provided they are PD in Canada. Even though Canada and the USA do not accept the rule of the shorter term, copyrighting for life + 50 years in Canada is much less lethal than in the USA.--Jusjih 22:07, 19 April 2008 (EDT) (admin on Wikimedia Commons, English and Chinese Wikisources, and more)
- As far as I know, Canada accepts the rule of shorter term, so yes, Wikilivres accepts them. Yann 04:42, 20 April 2008 (EDT)
- You mean subsection 9(2) of the Canadian Copyright Act, right? Even so, the rule of shorter term does not apply to North American Free Trade Agreement member states, so the USA and Mexican works would not apply. By the way, as Wikimedia Commons will not be able to legally or fairly have any galleries to host Not-PD-US-URAA images, I would like to propose allowing image galleries here to host them provided that they are PD in Canada. However, I consider that article name-space should not merely host image galleries as on Commons.--Jusjih 21:05, 20 April 2008 (EDT)
- Yes, right. For US works, it doesn't matter much, as they can be hosted on Wikimedia projects (Commons and Wikisource), and Wikilivres doesn't want to duplicate these projects. Yann 00:24, 21 April 2008 (EDT)
- Images is another issue, mainly of ressources. Hosting a lot of images would quickly bring this server down, so I wouldn't advertise Wikilivres as a multimedia hosting site for now. Yann 00:27, 21 April 2008 (EDT)
- Hosting a lot of images would quickly bring this server down... Sorry, I didn't know this. This is why I uploaded so many images. You had to tell me this at the very beginning... I can take off some of them if you wish. Yours, Dmitri Dmitrismirnov 05:27, 21 April 2008 (EDT)
- Well, when I say many, I mean many like if we'd have thousands of images. Now we have 291 images, there are not so many yet. ;o) Hopefully we'll find later a solution for a bigger server, so we can have a lot of images. Yann 06:12, 21 April 2008 (EDT)
- Then do not take them in bulk yet. I have posted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_site_feedback#Foundation_licensing_policy_and_American_non-acceptance_of_the_rule_of_the_shorter_term where you are invited to see.--Jusjih 20:56, 21 April 2008 (EDT)
- Well, when I say many, I mean many like if we'd have thousands of images. Now we have 291 images, there are not so many yet. ;o) Hopefully we'll find later a solution for a bigger server, so we can have a lot of images. Yann 06:12, 21 April 2008 (EDT)
- Hosting a lot of images would quickly bring this server down... Sorry, I didn't know this. This is why I uploaded so many images. You had to tell me this at the very beginning... I can take off some of them if you wish. Yours, Dmitri Dmitrismirnov 05:27, 21 April 2008 (EDT)
- Images is another issue, mainly of ressources. Hosting a lot of images would quickly bring this server down, so I wouldn't advertise Wikilivres as a multimedia hosting site for now. Yann 00:27, 21 April 2008 (EDT)
- Yes, right. For US works, it doesn't matter much, as they can be hosted on Wikimedia projects (Commons and Wikisource), and Wikilivres doesn't want to duplicate these projects. Yann 00:24, 21 April 2008 (EDT)
- You mean subsection 9(2) of the Canadian Copyright Act, right? Even so, the rule of shorter term does not apply to North American Free Trade Agreement member states, so the USA and Mexican works would not apply. By the way, as Wikimedia Commons will not be able to legally or fairly have any galleries to host Not-PD-US-URAA images, I would like to propose allowing image galleries here to host them provided that they are PD in Canada. However, I consider that article name-space should not merely host image galleries as on Commons.--Jusjih 21:05, 20 April 2008 (EDT)
I was referred here by Jusjih on a thread in regards to images which are PD in Canada, but not in the US. Does Wikilivres have any plans to expand into the domain of images? Does anyone know of a site which does this? Would anyone here be interested in joining such a project? Padraic 10:44, 27 May 2008 (EDT)
- I am very eager to expand Wikilivres to other documents. However there are several issues to solve to accomplish that:
- Server capacity. The actual server cannot support an important increase of uploads and downloads (maybe not more than 3-4 times the actual rate). With images, this limit would be rapidely met.
- The name Wikilivres is not appriopriate for a multimedia hosting site.
- This was already discussed at the English Wikisource. The best solution would be that the site to be taken over by Wikimedia Canada or another Canadian organisation. I would accept such a transfer if the organisation continues the project. Yann 13:20, 27 May 2008 (EDT)
- Can you supply the link to where it was discussed at en.source? Padraic 18:18, 27 May 2008 (EDT)
- Here it is en.ws:Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives/2008-04#Copyright_issues: what do we do next? Yann 02:39, 28 May 2008 (EDT)
- Can you supply the link to where it was discussed at en.source? Padraic 18:18, 27 May 2008 (EDT)
[edit] More localization
Hello, I think that Wikilivres:Demandes and Wikilivres:Prix littéraires could be translated and localized. It is probably better than having all requests and literary awards in one page. What do you think? Yann 00:39, 21 April 2008 (EDT)
- Yes, this is reasonable and helpful. Dmitrismirnov 05:23, 21 April 2008 (EDT)
[edit] Interlanguage links for multilingual licences
To reduce the need to post excessive multilingual licences in one page and modeled after Wikimedia Commons, I have decided to add interlanguage links to Template:DP-Canada, Template:DP-Canada-Auteur (no Russian found), and Template:DP-Canada-Traduction (French and Russian only).--Jusjih 22:01, 23 May 2008 (EDT)
- Excellent idea! Yann 09:54, 24 May 2008 (EDT)
