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Hi. sorry, but I my horrible english can't make explane me good. I want say if was possible put the text of the two little tag in the other tag, and delete they. But if you want charge road signal image, please, check if aren't redundant of images in this category. About lenguages, I think that is better have first english and later the other lenguages, but imho. --RED DEVIL66609:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, if you must upload hundreds images is ok. I say this only because on Commons there are a lots of tags only for 1 or 2 images. --RED DEVIL66608:44, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! Thank you for taking the time to vote for me in my recent request for adminship. It ended with a final score of (8/10) and hece failed to reach concensus. I value all of the contributions made during the process and I will take a special note of the constructive criticism regarding interacting with users in the user talk space. If you have questions, or requests, please leave a message. --Cool CatTalk|@12:50, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
JORF is the official gazette publishing the authoritative version of laws, regulations and some other decisions from the national government. These decisions are opposable to citizens. It is a general principle of French law that the republishing of decisions opposable to citizens (laws, regulations, court decisions) cannot be prevented by copyright.
The official site of the French government for publishing law online says:
DROIT d'AUTEUR
En premier lieu, certaines de ces données sont protégées par le droit d'auteur (article L111-1 du code de la propriété intellectuelle). Il s'agit pour l'essentiel des traductions en langue étrangère de codes, des abstrats ou résumés décrivant soit des textes (sur la base Lex), soit des arrêts (sur les bases Constit, Jade, Cass, et Juridice), et de l'ensemble des plans de classement utilisés sur le site. [...]
That is:
COPYRIGHT
First, some of the data on this site is copyrighted (article L111-1 of the code of intellectual property). The copyrighted data is, essentially, the translations into foreign languages of codes; abstract and summaries describing laws and regulations, or court decisions; and the classifications used on this site.
Note that they mention that summaries of texts, as well as translations of texts, are copyrighted, but not the authoritative version of the texts. David.Monniaux18:17, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I may also add that this thing about legal texts (laws, regulations, court decisions and other decisions) not being protected by copyright does not extend to other publications of the French government. The general rules for reuse of French government publications are laid in the law of July 17, 1978 and the decree of December 30, 2005.
Note also that databases of legal texts might be protected by the sui generis right on database as defined in Title 4 of the code of intellectual property. Note, however, that this only covers substantial copies of the databases, which means that a few disorganized pages out of it are not covered.
If you wish to discuss this further, as I have done, I suggest you to ask Villy (who is a chief justice) and Soufron (who is an attorney-at-law and also the chief legal officer of the Wikimedia Foundation). Beware: the legal status of government works is a very complex legal issue, probably requiring knowledge of French and French law to be understood. There exist entire books on the topic (there's one by Maurice Ronai from 1996, alas outdated) and many situations are in a legal gray area (because untested in court). I strongly recommend against drawing any kind of legal conclusion without some (fairly tedious) study of the issues. David.Monniaux00:00, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. please change the text of your tag, because are very long. Put the laws in talk page, put a link in the template, to talk page, and put in the tag a little explicative text. A big tag isn't easy to use for an user with a little definition of screen, like 800x600. Sorry for this problem. Bye --RED DEVIL66612:54, 25 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
for PD-chile I was working on, but isn't a big problem make more small the tags. This is better, and if you can do it for chinese tags is good. My opinion for Maco's tag is put all text in talk page, and put a little text in english (with a link to talk page) in the template. Sorry for my sucks english, and if I could not say good. --RED DEVIL66607:44, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there, thank you for your support vote in my administratorship election, I have passed with 6/6 votes. Please let me know if you ever need anything or tell me how I am doing with the new tools. with kind regards Gryffindor12:15, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Jusjih, many thanks for supporting me on my recent request for adminship here on Commons! It has succeeded and I am now an administrator. Please feel free to raise any issues with me on my talk page. Regards--AYArktos10:37, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I was wondering if you would delete Image:Pride and Prejudice, chapter 44.ogg for me. I think there was something wrong during the upload, and apparently there is no file by that actual name (I can't stream the audio file that I uploaded). I've added {{Speedy}} to the page, but I doubt it will be deleted any time soon if I just wait. I think if you delete it, I can upload it again and it will actually work this time. I'm using it to complement a work over on Wikisource, and I'd like to get this project finished in a timely manner.
I noticed you deleted the Varttina photo I submitted stating it's been simply copied from the band's website. As you must be much more familiar with how Wikipedia works, maybe you could explain me how to submit the photo in the right way.
First of all, your assumption about the photos origin was wrong. Even if the same photo can be found on Varttina's web page doesn't mean it was copied from there. You see, I work as the band's manager and I was the one who put it in www.varttina.com in the first place. The copyright for the picture is owned by the band and me as their representer. The photo have been bought from the photographer Tuomo Manninen, who only wishes he is attributed for his work.
As I am new to Wikipedia and this whole photo/copyright thing seems to be very complicated and sensitive area, I'd like to know how I can submit the image so that it stays there for sure? After all, we all like to have images on these pages, don't we?
as per Commons talk:Administrators, I am asking all admins to subscribe to commons-l, a mailing list for Wikimedia Commons policy and project discussion. Since many admins are only on Commons infrequently, this is a good way to alert people about important happenings. The mailing list is nominally multilingual, but predominantly English.
If you are already subscribed to commons-l, I apologize for bothering you, and you are free to ignore this message. If you don't want to use your regular e-mail account, feel free to leave me a message, and I can send you a GMail invite. Traffic on the mailing list is relatively low, and we do not expect admins to read all messages to the list, but it would be nice if you could check on it at least every few weeks. Thanks for your time,--Eloquence23:06, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
What did you think of the Template:Translation? I was thinking of adding a parameter for the translator (would be placed in a little box in the lower right or something).
Is there a current system for organising translation work? I started thinking about how best to do this after I was told to seek a translator for my comments. Though direct, it seems a little cumbersome to me if everyone has to ask a specific translator to translate their work. Also, the best translators might get bombarded with requests taking their time from other tasks they are good at and/or introducing delays into discussions. Might it be useful to have a template (something like "translation request") which would take languages as a parameter and add the page into a category (say "Tranlsation requests|<lang-from> <lang-to>") which translators could monitor minimising the lag time. Comments? --Swift17:40, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Your new template identifies translated text. Translation requests should be limited to very important concerns at an easily located project page. Commons:List of administrators by language shows multiple admins with at least intermediate Chinese skills, so a specific translation request page should be better than asking each admin. Standard language but not homophone abbreviations should be written for easier translation, such as "to you" and "for you", not "2 u" or "4 u" that may be considered strange and mysterious to non-native speakers. Furthermore, homophone abbreviations are NOT friendly to machine translators.--Jusjih18:42, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Your new template identifies translated text. Yes, I noticed ;-). Did you think it was a good idea or just a waste of time?
specific translation request page should be better than asking each admin I've put up a proposal to (re-)start one at Commons:Requests for translation and will post a request for comments at the Village pump shortly.
Standard language but not homophone abbreviations... I take it these are suggestions for potential guidelines? Thanks I'll keep that in mind. Perhaps you could watch the RfT page and comment on these matters if the community looks kindly upon this?
Unfortunately the comments are too long to translate in a short time for me, so I am referring Shizhao machine translators, even though not perfect, in case he cannot readily understand others' English and no one is readily available to translate.--Jusjih04:13, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
If you consent for statistics to be published about your actions as an administrator, please sign here: Commons:Administrator permission for statistics. (I expect that most people will not have a problem with it unless you are especially concerned with privacy.)
I just mean that it would be nice if you keep an eye on Commons more that it may be thought out of looking at your contributions. It doesn't mean that I suppose that you are not sufficiently active here: watching the Commons Recent changes page and your User discussion page doesn't cause any tracks in the User contributions page. No special actions are expected from your side by me. It's just a humble request to you to keep your eye on Commons; no any signs of this are required - I of course trust you. Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko)08:58, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Since there are so many new uploads here, looking at the recent changes may slow down the server like other heavily used Wiki sites, but I will randomly look around anyway.--Jusjih09:57, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I have seen your answers, but using edit summaries much more often will make you better trusted. Please do not force others to gurss what you do.--Jusjih17:07, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You should know that I have completely restructured COM:DEL (roughly about 1000+ edits I believe) which deflated my edit summary ratio. I also generaly do not use an edit summary for posts containing my signature (aka talk page posts, and other discussions). --Catout03:55, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The above image depicted a coin from 1810, then surely an image of it must be a derivative work and thus PD-Old independently on the license on the webpage where teh image originated? /Lokal_Profil19:50, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Since no one responded to Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Due Sicilie - 12 carlini 1810.jpg after 25 September 2006, I have deleted it. Thankfully a developer has enabled undeleting images and if you have a good reason to believe it PD-old, please go to Commons:Undeletion requests to appeal. Since I administer eight Wiki sites, including this Commons and English Wikipedia with too many problem images, I am too busy to try saving tagged problem images that might otherwise be eligible to stay.--Jusjih15:09, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That was in category Unknown - August 2006 and it was not edited for 69 days when deleted. Please go to Commons:Undeletion requests to appeal if you have a good reason to believe it in the public domain. I cannot undelete just because you have asked. Unfortunately too many countries over-copyright works so they are obstructing cultural development.--Jusjih18:22, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! yea, thats fine! I'm just tagging them so somebody else can do it (or me,...) If that is okay with you?!
Amada44
Okay. You may leave these tags there, but I have to know which ones you have converted since they are used at least at Chinese Wikisource. Since these Taiwanese sign images are from a PDF in Chinese only, perhaps you can convert only after I upload the images while you do not understand Chinese language.--Jusjih13:08, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Again! so, I did one as an example: {{border|}} that became: . I have added the -SupersededSVG- tag to the PNG file. But it is a hell of allot of work to change them all into SVG. I wont do that by myself. And just another pile of work to change it at the Chinese Wikisource!!! Amada4416:10, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
How many SVGs have you made? While the new SVG that you show me is clearer, I cannot do it myself, so unless you know someone willing to convert, please have him/her contact me. Otherwise, tagging convertions to SVG is NOT okay to me while I still have hundreds of images to upload. You cannot read Chinese and I cannot upload SVGs mean that for now, I can only continue uploading PNGs or wait until my computer is capable of supporting SVGs. That will not happen within three months.--Jusjih13:54, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! I have done only one until now. But of course it will be quicker now, that I have done the first example. but I will not do to many in the next time mainly because I dont have regular internet access. There is no clear consense about tagging svg in wikimedia. I thought, that all images which would be better in svg should be tagged and when people find time, converted. But I wont tag you images and please upload the rest in PNG!! Amada4409:45, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello there! The thing is, that to make svg's properly you will need either Illustrator or Inkscape and then one has to re-build each sign in one of those programs and that is a huge amount of work!!! I wouldn't wait with uploading. Do the work you have planed to do! Except: I looked at the pdf you linked with the roadsigns and the are embedded as bitmaps into the pdf. If the images are embedded vector images then you can open the pdf in illustrator and save the file as svg. But otherwise, upload svg! Amada4423:29, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, is desirable to convert the gif to png. It's better to reduce the weight of the image, reducing the number of colors, i.e.Sanbec✉15:52, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Jusjih, thanks for your notice. I am very supportive of your work, and absolutely agree that this kind of monitoring is necessary. Many thanks! As for watching, I have all of my own pictures on the watchlist, but I am not watching other images i uploaded. (with 1500 images this would be quite a lot ;) Best wishes and happy editing -- Chris 7323:38, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I used to contribute under user name Soroush_Mesry here and in some wikis, but now I want to move to user names such the one I'm contributing now and delete my last user page and talk page so searching my name in google wouldn't result my user or talk pages or even the pages I have edited or signed?
Moreover I have a question. Is it allowed to change my previous signs and reffer them to my current user name? (Either here or in the other sister projects?)
Hi Jusjih, CommonsDelinker already handles delinking arwiki, no need to take extra actions, yet you are more than welcomed :) . Between CommonsTicker and CommonsDelinker, things seem to be running fine. --Tarawneh18:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to a developer, deleted images may now be undeleted.
I just found that alternate photos are available at [6], but no one else placed the photos here. I can undelete the photos with thier page history in one condition, i.e. the photos have to be reuploaded with CC-BY-SA 2.0 to replace those with CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0. Instead of further deletions, I will try to replace these photos and restore local images. If you want to undelete, please replace the licensing information as well.--Jusjih13:45, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There was an extra permission
The limitation of the extra permission doesn't matter. A license is only valid for one specific file.
I haven't talked at the deletion request, because I didn't know about it. The person who requested the deletion did not take the time to insert a deletion request into each picture, that means that the CommonsTicker, didn't notify us :( Maybe we should optimize the Ticker ....
I know. That's what I did!
Replacing the images sounds like a good idea. I don't have the bandwith to help you, I'm sorry. I'm only on ISDN and all my time is currently consumed by the nld-pictures at de.wp Thanks, --Flominator14:25, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I manually delinked images in question. I will first re-upload images and then go back to my contributions at various Wiki sites to relink images. This is not my first time experiencing major copyright turmoil as a Wiki site admin. I have seen this at English Wikisource involving the United Nations resolutions. Be glad that someone can prove them in the public domain, so they have been undeleted.--Jusjih14:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Jusjih, thank you for your message. The picture is supposed to be on English Wikipedia licensed as Fair Use Building. I don't know what's going on here. Hope you can help, 163.1.230.12217:04, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note that Article 55 in the 1990 law is Article 59 in the current (2001) amended law -- I don't think there is a need for a separate link there; just change the article number and list it with the other articles. Carl Lindberg04:44, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
In your rule of the shorter term petition, note that the U.S. essentially used the rule of the shorter term when deciding which works to restore -- only works which were still copyrighted in their country of origin in 1996 were eligible. So, the problem is only for works that have expired in their country of origin since then -- a problem that was small but is growing, putting U.S. citizens/corporations at a disadvantage because European users can use U.S. material if it has expired according to their rules (even if still copyrighted in the U.S.) while U.S. users cannot do the same in the reverse situation. That may be a more effective way of putting it; not sure. Just throwing the thought out there ;-) Carl Lindberg04:56, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Jusjih,
Thank you for voting in my request for adminship, it has been successful. Sorry for the ammount of time that has passed, I was too side-tracked with helping out using my new privilages.
Thanks once again, Lcarsdata18:10, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for adminship - I need to discover these tools now. & Sorry, but my level zh-0 don't allow me to say it in chinese! Michelet-密是力15:04, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
CJK stroke order project need help to finish a translation[edit]
Hello Jusjih,
I come here to ask your help in translating the end of Commons:中日韩汉字笔顺计划 from English into simplified Chinese. This project already provided 1500 images, but there is many characters missing. This translation will help us to have some chinese graphists. --Yug(talk)11:13, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Caro amigo, eu não entendo o idioma inglês, por isso gostaria que colocasse as ferramentas de tradução no recado deixado na minha página de discussão para que eu possa traduzir. Não entendi o que voçe colocou. Obrigado. --Júnior Miranda18:36, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If you created this image, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. If the file is up for deletion because it has been superseded by a superior derivative of your work, consider the notion that although the file may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new file.
In all cases, please do not take the deletion request personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!
Note on my page as well. I put in a request that my scans be deleted as you requested, also I removed the Commons link on Wikipedia WayneRay17:39, 9 July 2007 (UTC)WayneRay[reply]
Hi. From your editing behaviour, it looks like you could heavily benifit from the two above script. Their talk pages describe how to add them to your monobook.js. Cheers! Siebrand13:21, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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. I have added the -SupersededSVG- tag to the PNG file. But it is a hell of allot of work to change them all into SVG. I wont do that by myself. And just another pile of work to change it at the Chinese Wikisource!!! Amada44 16:10, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
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