Wikiversity is a project of the Wikimedia foundation. It is a centre for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. We host free education resources and scholarly projects. We also aim at interacting with other wikimedia projects and support their content developments. So far, English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Portuguese and Czech have developed into separate projects.
I’m a Wikimedian, based in Sydney. I am a project officer for ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi) working on helping Australian cultural organisations use Creative Commons. I’m also the 2012 Director’s Fellow at the National Museum of Australia. My username everywhere is “Wittylama” - an anagram. I speak French and Swedish, have a bachelors in Globalisation Studies and one highly prized university medal. Currently studying for a Masters in IP law from QUT/WIPO.
Der Lizenzhinweisgenerator hilft dabei, Bilder aus Wikipedia und dem freien Medienarchiv Wikimedia Commons einfach und rechtssicher nachzunutzen. Dabei werden die nötigen Lizenzinformationen automatisiert durch die Beantwortung weniger Fragen zusammengestellt.
Fotos von Gemälden sind auch geschützt, selbst wenn das Urheberrecht an letzteren abgelaufen ist. Das entschied Ende letzten Jahres der Bundesgerichtshof. Die neue EU-Urheberrechtsreform kann allerdings Bewegung in den Fall bringen, erklärt John Weitzmann von Wikimedia im Interview.
A centralized installation allows you to have one version of the codebase supporting multiple wikis, each talking to their own database (or even the same database, with different table name prefixes).
Conclusion
Both the all-inclusive definition of the term editor, and the systemic error, make the survival analysis as used a highly questionable method for analyzing the size of a community for recent years. By not realizing these inherent weaknesses the Wall Street Journal drew and published conclusions which are completely out of line with reality.
In wikistats we will continue to use editors with x+ edits per month as measure for ongoing activity. This measurement tells us that the number of editors that contribute monthly above a certain threshold has been relatively stable in the last 12 months, even more so for our core editor base, people that made 100 or more edits in a month.
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I want to thank Dr Ortega for this feedback and support that helped to make the above analysis possible.
T. Tunsch. EVA 2011 Berlin: 9.-11. November 2011 in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin am Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz; Elektronische Medien & Kunst, Kultur, Historie; die 18. Berliner Veranstaltung der Internationalen EVA-Serie Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts; Konferenzband, Seite 23--42. Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gesellschaft z. Förderung angewandter Informatik, EVA Conferences International, (2011)