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Articles tagged: licensing[edit]
From the archives 5, 10, and 15 years ago
2022-08-31
The Signpost looks back on The Signpost: New reports, conceived in a spirit of collaboration, and dedicated to the proposition of information and, uh, more information for all.
News from the WMF The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?
2022-05-29
New regulations governing online censorship
News from the WMF How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?
2022-04-24
The deceptively simple Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of 2022.
Special report Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?
2020-08-02
Comparing Wikipedia to similar projects.
News from the WMF The WMF's take on the EU Copyright Directive
2019-03-31
The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive: The Wikimedia Foundation reacts to the passing of the new EU Copyright Directive.
News and notes Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive
2019-03-31
Eight Wikipedias blacked out their pages trying to stop major copyright law changes.
News and notes Front-page issues for the community
2019-02-28
Encyclopedias for Deletion; Corinne; scholarships; partial blocks; and administrators headcount.
News and notes Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)
2017-06-23
While the English Wikipedia community produces no new requests for adminhood in June, the Wikimedia Foundation makes changes to the Product and Technology departments.
In the media Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill
2017-06-23
The anatomy of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's chest area has been the talk of the month. But so have high-profile edits, hacked articles, and one particular newborn growing up.
Blog Wikimedia Foundation removes The Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements
2016-02-10
An unfortunate overreach.
Special report Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016
2016-01-13
WE LOVE PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY!
Recent research Military history, cricket, and Australia targeted in Wikipedia articles' popularity vs. quality; how copyright damages economy
2015-04-29
Reader demand for some topics (e.g. LGBT topics or pages about countries) is poorly satisfied, whereas there is over-abundance of quality on topics of comparatively little interest, such as military history.
Dispatches Let's get serious about plagiarism
2014-10-01
This article was first published in the Signpost in 2009. Written by several long-standing editors, including the late Adrianne Wadewitz, the article was subjected to extensive commentary and ultimately influenced the English Wikipedia's plagiarism guideline. With recent debates about close paraphrasing vis-à-vis plagiarism, we feel that this dispatch retains its relevance and deserves a second airing.
In the media Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes
2014-08-13
The Observer reported (August 2) that Google would "restrict search terms to a link to a Wikipedia article, in the first request under Europe's controversial new 'right to be forgotten' legislation to affect the 110m-page encyclopaedia."
Op-ed Five things a Wikipedian in Residence can do
2014-04-23
Hey you—yeah you, the Wikipedian! Do you want to help a museum, a library, a university, or other organization explore ways to engage with Wikipedia? Great—you should offer your expertise as a Wikipedian in residence!
Op-ed Licensed for reuse? Citing open-access sources in Wikipedia articles
2014-01-15
It is heavily ironic that two decades after the World Wide Web was started — largely to make it easier to share scholarly research — most of our past and present research publications are still hidden behind paywalls for private profit. The bitter twist is that the vast majority of this research is publicly funded, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide each year.
Investigative report Ship ahoy! New travel site finally afloat
2013-01-14
After six years without creating a new class of content projects, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has finally expanded into a new area — travel.
Recent research Conflict dynamics, collaboration and emotions; digitization vs. copyright; WikiProject field notes; quality of medical articles; role of readers; best wiki paper award
2012-07-30
From the modeling of social dynamics in a collaborative environment to why the number of Wikipedia readers rises while the number of editors doesn't.
In the news Open access clash with copyright; rising reader satisfaction; the wiki-correlates of geopolitical instability; brief news
2011-07-25
News and notes More research on newbie editors; Baidu plagiarism; bin Laden coverage; brief news
2011-05-09
News and notes NPG copyright irony; Citizendium's finances; Credo accounts donated; brief news
2011-03-21
News and notes Page-edit stats, French National Library partnership, Mass page blanking, Jimbo on Pending changes
2010-09-13
Features and admins Featured status removal still being discussed as license policy hits images
2005-06-20