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Please increase Beehive burner if you can. Arminius 19:55, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
In the course of informal discussions at Wikimania in Frankfurt the possibility of having Wikimania 2006 in Vancouver was raised. What makes Canada desirable for such a meeting is the capacity to draw delegates from the United States. For many overseas delegates, however, U.S. visa requirements make that country less attractive. All else being equal, Europeans see Vancouver as a more interesting Canadian city to visit than Toronto, the only other Canadian city to receive significant consideration.
Preliminary bids from various cities need to be made by Sept. 30, 2005. A short list will be drawn from those bids. Is there enough interest and energy to put together such a conference in Vancouver for August 2006? The people in Frankfurt put on a tremendous gathering, with a core organizational group of about a dozen people. Some 400 people attended from 52 different countries.
I expect that a North American Wikimania could be a little smaller, but we would still need a suitable facility. It would be good to know that such a facility is available for a conference; the type of youth hostel facility that was used in Frankfurt does not exist in North America. What would be the cost of hosting such a conference at UBC?
I'm looking for interest and commitment. To that end I am proposing a Vancouver meetup for Saturday, Sept. 24. If someone has a reasonably accesible place for such a meeting please let me know. (I live in Richmond, but something in the city of Vancouver would be more appropriate.)
I am spammiong this to all Vancouver area Wikipedians that I can find. Please reply to my talk page. Eclecticology 21:50:16, 2005-09-03 (UTC)
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Do you have copyright clearance on the Mary Webster poem? Thanks Tawker 01:27, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi it is my website you have linked to the Molly Webster mention -- and I assume the source from which you copied the poem. I take some issue with this as I transcribe all these materials myself and in fact I own original copies of the books as well, not a small financial investment. Therefore, it is my work and effort you are utilizing here. It would have been a much-appreciated gesture to have been asked for permission to reproduce my transcription. I would appreciate a response on this. I do have a copyright note on my site. Thanks.
My name is Laurel O'Donnell [email protected], you will see my name at the website link -- I understand copyright law. And while I do understand public domain, do you think it is fair to just copy material from the websites of individuals such as me who have worked hard to transcribe and [at least in my case] have purchased the original materials? I do this to draw traffic to my pages and because I have a specialty interest in the topic. Though the original poem is indeed in the public domain, the materials in digital format are not free for the taking. But copying my work and adding it to wiki -- which by the way I support and contribute to -- I feel is just inconsiderate and unfair. By the rule you are setting it then ought to be perfectly fine to download and reproduce (for example) images from the US Census that Ancestry provides, or anything else from any collection of data that may be organized online. I would really appreciate it if you would remove the poem.
Hm. It looks like Laurel O'Donnell believes copying the transcription to be unethical. I'm not sure why. We all agree that Kickstart's copying of the poem from a website is as legal as O'Donnell's copying of the poem from a book, even though O'Donnell's required more work. I would say both copyings are equally ethical as well. It is, in fact, perfectly fine to download and reproduce any uncopyrighted information from any collection of data that may be organized online. We do this routinely at Wikipedia.
Regardless, the poem belongs on Wikisource, not Wikipedia, and it should be moved there. – Quadell ( talk) ( bounties) 21:07, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Telekinesis is the same as Psychokinesis which, is already listed on the page. That is why I removed it. -- Lyle A. Ruggles 23:08, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
See my recent edits to Charlie. — Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 05:15, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Nay, it is you who stalkly net me. Or, um, netly stalk me. Or whatever. SnappingTurtle 01:32, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Please post translation requests for pages existing on other Wikipedias at WP:TIE. WP:PNT is for pages that are on the English Wikipedia, but were posted in a foreign language. For this reason, I will remove your request for Aida (film) from WP:PNT (I'm sorry if the different processes and places are confusing). Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 22:22, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
You misunderstand. I removed the vandalism added by an anonymous IP. Nifboy 04:35, 26 March 2006 (UTC)