User talk:Gergyl/Bird photos

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Gergyl

I help run a sub wiki at http://www.frheritage.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Home_Page in support of a narrow gauge railway = Ffestiniog Railway (also on Wikipedia)

I have just entered a page on Osprey, penned by one of our members (railway supporter group)

I would like permission to use your photo at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Osprey_photo.jpg, or at least a reduced size one

I appreciate the usual wiki protocol on GNU / copyright, but I prefer at least trying to make some personal contact to confirm situation and usage

never having used this email/talk system, I add my direct email address as manstaruk@aol.com for a reply

Thanks in anticipation

Keith C. Bradbury

Keith 20:35, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Tks. Far from my best pic, but you're welcome to use it however you see fit.

If you don't mind me asking, what software are you running for your wiki? Is that just Wikimedia with a different wrapper?

-- Gergyl 00:37, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I am but a lowly sub editor in this great scheme of ours, but I asked our Techbod and he came back with this for you

""At the moment the software we are using is UseMod with a few minor custom tweaks. However, I've been doing a lot of work on the software to produce something with the look and feel (and most of the facilities) of MediaWiki but aimed at small, single server wikis dealing with relatively low levels of traffic. Like UseMod, it is written in Perl and uses text files as the "database". Whilst there is still some UseMod code in there, the changes are so great that I am rechristening it as "FestWiki". I've got close enough to mean that the casual user will probably think it is MediaWiki (unless they try to use heiroglyphics, mathematical formulae, timelines or any of the other features I haven't implemented).""

Hope that answers. He hopes to have a major upgrade in towards the end of Feb, but as its all voluntary, no one is pushing for it

-- Keith 10:04, 31 January 2007 (UTC)