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Copyright tag for more than 100 years old photos?
Hello! Can i ask you about the copyright tag for the photos for more than 100 years old which were belonged to unknown author and country of origin. These images come from pinterest. — Preceding
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Editorfree1011:, well it's complicated. First (1st) of all when it was published is also very important for a lot of countries (like Việt-Nam) as their copyright duration is based on publication in some countries and the life of the author in others. For Vietnam it's pretty safe to say that all photographs published before 1948 are in the public domain, but then you need proof that they were published then and not just taken, which is a bit difficult. As for the lack of known authorship, well, on the internet it is common for photographs with known authors to circulate without it being attributed, "anonymous" is then untrue but it would be the best you can find on with the information you have and anyone wanting to delete it must prove that the photographs can be attributed to someone. --
Donald Trung (
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19:23, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
Then, can you tell me which one is the best that we can avoid the images removed in the future? According to what u said, wiki does not give the clear guildline for the very old images which is no longer copyright required.
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Would you like me to lobby to have your block on meta converted to a partial block that allows editing User: space so you could edit your global user page,
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Alexis Jazz:, judging by the reactions nobody wants to do it and if you saw my last unblock request you can tell that it doesn't matter what I say people will oppose it no matter what, I have simply made too many enemies to get even a minimum of an unblock. As you can see from the last request they wanted to take away my ability to edit that talk page so any attempt to get a partial unblock will result in me also losing the ability to edit that talk page, my best hope is to see if the culture will shift in the next few decades (unlikely, as the type of people who oppose me being here are always multiplying)... Thank you for trying though, I do really appreciate it and I appreciate you as a contributor as you genuinely make Wikimedia websites a better place. --
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Welcome to the twentieth newsletter from the
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The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in Wikimedia projects.
Suggested edits
As of February, 300,000 suggested edits have been completed since the feature was first deployed in December 2019.
Add a link is the team's first structured task, deployed in May 2021. It has improved outcomes for newcomers. The team is now working on a second iteration based on community feedback and data analysis. Improvements will include: improved algorithmic suggestions, guardrails to prevent too many similar links to be added, and clearer encouragement for users to continue making edits. After adding these improvements, we will deploy this task to more Wikipedias.
Add an image is the second structured task built by our team. It was deployed in November 2021 to four pilot Wikipedias. This is a more challenging task for newcomers. However, it adds more value to articles (so far, over 1,000 images have been added). We are currently learning from communities and from the data on what is working well and what needs improvements. The project page contains
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hear your thoughts on this idea as we build and test the early versions. We will soon deploy this task to more Wikipedias as a test.
"Add a link" and "Add an image" now both have a limitation on how many of these tasks newcomers can do per day. It is meant to discourage careless newcomers from making too many problematic edits.
Positive reinforcement
Over the last two years, the Growth team has focused on building suggested edits: easy tasks for newcomers to start with. We have learned with this experience that these tasks help many newcomers to make their first edits. Now, the team is starting a new project : "
positive reinforcement". Its goal is to make newcomers proud of their editing and to make them want to come back for more of them. With the positive reinforcement project, we are considering three kinds of features:
Impact stats: give newcomers the ability to see how many people read the articles they edit.
Leveling up: encourage newcomers to progress from easier tasks to harder tasks.
Personalized praise: encourage mentors and other editors to "thank" and award newcomers for good work.
This project is just beginning, and we hope for community thoughts on the direction. We know that things can wrong if we offer the wrong incentives to newcomers, so we want to be careful. Please visit
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Scaling
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