User talk:Matthias

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Unmaintained Free Software. I hope you like this wiki and decide to stay. If you want to get involved, there are several possibilities. You can play around in the Sandbox, help us by expanding stubs, find new unmaintained projects, help us shorten our TODO List, join our mailinglists and our forum, or take over an unmaintained project. I'm looking forward to your suggestions and constributions. --Uwe Hermann 01:37, 9 January 2007 (CET)
- Hi Matthias! Thanks a lot for all your contributions! Keep those unmaintained packages coming :) --Uwe Hermann 01:37, 9 January 2007 (CET)

Hi, you listed the screenshots you uploaded as licensed under the GFDL, but most are taken from various websites and don't have any license attached to them. We must either remove screenshots without a free license and/or replace them with screenshots one of us created ourselves and licensed under a free license... --Uwe Hermann 01:49, 9 January 2007 (CET)

I am not a copyright expert but it seemed strange to license a free software screenshot under a restricted license: Wikipedians solve this issue by releasing the screenshot under the same license as the program itself which seems logical as taking a screenshot is pure reproduction somehow: take Image:Gedit.png for example and see Commons:Licensing#Screenshots for a detailed description. I will change the namespace-templates accordingly and write a small image-licensing-guideline for this wiki. Matt 20:44, 10 January 2007 (CET)

Screenshots you created yourself and which you licensed under any free license (be it GPL, GFDL, a Creative Commons license, or plain Public Domain) are ok. However, some screenshots you uploaded are not created by yourself but taken from some website, correct? See for example this screenshot. Unless that website explicitly says that the image is under a free license, we cannot use them. Luckily, as we only list Free Software in this wiki, we can simply create screenshots of most of the software packages ourselves and put them under a free license. We don't depend on screenshots from other websites being free... --Uwe Hermann 03:04, 11 January 2007 (CET)

Well, you are right. I was lazy. It is probably the best to upload my own screenshots instead of just copying them from other (probably outdated) sources. Matt 22:45, 14 January 2007 (CET)

OK, screenshots are removed now. We can upload new ones we created ourselves (and released under a free license) later... --Uwe Hermann 16:18, 21 January 2007 (CET)

Hi! Regarding this change: I'm not sure we can easily use DPL here. Please note that the old order and the one generated by DPL differ. We need to find a way to properly identify the date a project was (the last time) put into the Maintained category. Is that possible with DPL? Edits shouldn't matter IMHO, just the addition of the article to the Maintained category. --Uwe Hermann 02:22, 27 January 2007 (CET)

Yes I noticed the order change, but it is not a bug of DPL here. addfirstcategorydate=true "Shows the date/time the article got added to the first listed include category." [1] The problem is: you readded e.g. Orpheon at 13:23, 26 January 2006 (I guess from your legacy Unmaintained Free Software database) and this is exactly what the list shows - the time when you added the {{maintained}} to the article. You could solve this issue by modifying the revision table manually or we remove the (incorrect) date from the dynamic output or we do it by hand as before or we leave it by that and name it projects recently marked as adopted. Matt 09:43, 27 January 2007 (CET)

This wiki might benefit from the latest version of DPL (found on [2]). DPL now allows to generate reports which contain parts of articles that were used in template calls; see the example. --217.111.20.10 07:03, 20 February 2007 (CET)

Thanks, the new version is now installed! I think there are a number of places where we can use it... --Uwe Hermann 15:14, 20 February 2007 (CET)

Hi Matthias! I'd like to kill the Screenshots template again, we don't really need it, IMHO. I deliberately introduced Screenshot[123] to make it clear that only max. 3 screenshots per project are allowed, and they fit just fine in the Project Details template (displayed on below the other). Do you have other uses for it in mind or shall we remove it? --Uwe Hermann 18:15, 31 January 2007 (CET)
- You like the delete-button :) I agree, it's not really neccessary at the moment, but I don't think it disturbs anyone. Matt 20:36, 31 January 2007 (CET)
  - OK, let's leave it there for now. --Uwe Hermann 22:37, 31 January 2007 (CET)

Hi Matthias! Regarding one screenshot only: I'm fine with only adding one screenshot per project, but if we do that, then exactly one screenshot should be the maximum per project, please. I don't like subpages for multiple screenshots. --Uwe Hermann 23:52, 27 February 2007 (CET)
- That's okay. It was just a quick thought as most of our pages do not have more than one screenshot and sometimes even one thumbnail does not really fit well. --Matt 23:57, 27 February 2007 (CET)