, if you folks can all hear me okay someone can unmute and tell me if I'm sounding okay to you we did a check recently a few minutes ago and it sounded alright excellent thank you scan great then I'm going to begin so today's event if you're wondering why I'm staring up at the screen we're here in Cape Town at the the wikimania mini event in Cape Town and I'm here with a panel of people I feel like I can swing my computer around briefly just to show you some of the folks that are with us here today and on the other side so we've got a literal round table today in addition to a digital round table to talk about copyright in Wikipedia and I've also got a big screen up ahead of me I'm staring at myself I'm going to ask if everyone can mute please so that I can speak there we go welcome today we'll be talking about copyright in Wikipedia how to use and navigate copyright in Wikipedia I'm going to start off this presentation it's a round table discussion I'm going to start us off today with a brief outline of copyright regulations in Wikipedia how to navigate those what some of these issues are and then I'm going to give as much time as possible for some Q&A hopefully we'll have some legal experts we've got at least one copyright legal expert with us here today who can help answer these questions any questions you might have about how to navigate copyright whilst editing Wikipedia which is today's subject so without further ado let's begin so I've chosen to divide up the major copyright issues affecting editing Wikipedia into basically four large categories really the biggest one is how to navigate using multimedia, photograph videos, etc because all the other ones kind of fall under that anyway but with simplicity I've started us off I wanted to start off the discussion with talking about choosing a license that's typically the first point of entry for most people when they engage with copyright material and Wikipedia they're uploading their own creations, their own works of creativity, their own works of novelty onto Wikipedia and when they do that they have to select a copyright license and I'll talk about the copyright licenses just now I'll follow that up with a discussion about photographs the biggest topic here when it comes to photographs is the issue around freedom of panorama but there are a lot of practical issues and freedom of panorama is quite a very specific issue in case you're wondering freedom of panorama is the right to take works of public artworks so these most often include the facades of buildings and uploading those to Wikipedia to use as illustrations to illustrate architectural features or notable buildings so that's freedom of panorama but also quickly talk about the contextuality of when you get copyright exemption for using which types of photographs and that leads us quite neatly into the next topic which is copyright expiration copyright doesn't last forever thankfully but the length of how long it lasts differs from country to country and we'll end off with the tricky issue of fair use which is actually much trickier than many people think it is because not everyone uses fair use cool so when selecting a Creative Commons license as you know Wikimedia Commons will only accept multimedia or works that are uploaded with a public license but Commons and Wikimedia cannot accept any Creative Commons license there are basically only three that Commons will accept there are complicated reasons for why there are only three of the nine Creative Commons licenses available Commons accepts one of the more frustrating ones for me as an editor based in South Africa is that we don't accept non-commercial licenses and that's largely because a lot of South African institutions especially government institutions do release content under Creative Commons license but under a non-commercial license which means that essentially we can't use those and it's quite a struggle for government entities and public entities to switch from non-commercial to a more widely accepted license such as share and share alike attributation full text or just basically just dropping them the non-attributation license in terms of copyright terms around the world I mentioned briefly how not everyone has the same length of term back in days of your many years ago before WIPO the typical length was about 20 or 30 years I'm talking very long time ago now and more recently in the past I think twice you can fill me in here is it like 50 or 40 years is it the 70s or 60s when they decided to extend by treaty extend copyright licenses around the world and so in South Africa 1886 I thought it was in those days was that when they said 50 years okay so it's actually much longer than I thought but in South Africa we got 50 years plus life of the author many other countries you see the darker orange ones those are 70 years some are 60 years I know Mexico is colored in that darker color which indicates 100 years I thought this map might be out of date or maybe it's current I'm not sure but my understanding was that Japan also had a 100 year plus life of the author copyright limitation but please check me on that Somalia that's 30 years I think that's very young I don't know why they got such a short length of copyright validity before expiration but the long and the short of this is that if the copyright in the country in which the creative work was made is older than the date of expiration let's say United States I think it's 70 years plus life of the author there then you're free to upload it the United States it's actually quite easy to follow because they have a special day every year 1st January Wikipedia celebrates 1st January it's a special day in the year when copyrighted material from the term limit enters the public domain and so every year now more and more material especially from the 1920s is now entering the public domain I don't want to spend too much time on this because I want to sort of give it as much time as possible for Q&A freedom of panorama I already briefly explained what that is this is just a map of countries where freedom of panorama exists freedom of panorama is something I'm just going to continue going so freedom of panorama is something we generally want because it gives us the right to take photographs public works use them on Wikipedia for illustrative purposes under creative commons license we don't have to ask for permission and go through the logistics difficulties of making that happen as you can see a lot of countries in the world don't allow for freedom of panorama increasingly more and more countries are allowing for it I'm just going to ask if everyone can please mute themselves until we begin the Q&A some countries you'll notice allow for freedom of panorama in external areas only so out in the open only whereas other countries have a more a broader freedom of panorama copyright exception which allow for photographs of interior spaces that are also public spaces so think of train stations for example that are also covered by the freedom of panorama copyright exception and then a brief update on what has been done in the Wikipedia community globally to try and make copyright law friendlier to Wikipedia and Wikipedia editing I know of advocacy efforts in Australia, European Union South Africa I know the best because I'm involved in that the United States and in the world intellectual property organization efforts to try and get membership there and I can go into detail on any of those if you are interested in but I'm also happy to open us up to questions on any of the other issues we addressed and hopefully we also have a legal representative from the Wikimedia Foundation joining us here today to also help answer the questions in a more expert fashion than myself thank you any questions let me open up the floor here no problem I'm going to stop screen sharing let's see here yes I just missed it what do the colors on the map mean butch asks so let me quickly go back to that map so there are two maps butch the first map this one here the colors so the yellows basically mean 50 years plus life of the author is the extent to which copyright will last in that country so if your country is in yellow that's 50 years plus life of the author so basically after the death of the author add another 50 years copyright is now expired and therefore it is entered in the public domain if it's in orange it's 70 years if I remember correctly and then for some reason the author of this map decided to color brown as 60 years so I think Venezuela is colored there brown so that should be 60 years plus life of the author and then the very dark color which I believe Mexico is colored in is 100 years plus life of the author and Ian in the room here with me today he asked about Somalia which is colored in green and I remember correctly that is 30 years plus life of the author most countries in the world seem to be adopted the 70 years plus life of the author copyright limitation the second map red so this is the map of freedom of panorama where it exists and where it doesn't exist and the extent to which freedom of panorama grants the copyright exception red indicates no freedom of panorama so South Africa or Iman doesn't have freedom of panorama Philippines for example does not have freedom of panorama although South Africa we were uncertain for a while about whether or not we did have freedom of panorama or not we came to the conclusion that South Africa doesn't because the copyright law of 1978 is badly written but our reading of it much like in Sweden previously is that really we don't so we sort of air on the side of caution where many countries in the European Union do have freedom of panorama including North America the Americas as well see if there are any other questions I could see oh that's great, thanks butch butch is just saying that they are both filed in the Philippines to include a freedom of panorama exception oh, so Venezuela is indeed 60 years sorry oh, okay, thank you oh, thanks, thanks again I'm sorry about my line let me know if you missed anything and I'll repeat it my line might not be 100% please let me know if you got copyright related questions I am happy to also go into some detail about the advocacy efforts as well as in any of the more particular questions I do quickly want to go into one thing in that Creative Commons the Wikimedia Commons has got a pretty good article on how and when you can use photographs particularly photographs on Commons because there is a lot of contextuality when it comes to using figuring out if a work is copyright exempt especially in Wikipedia Wikipedia we tend to take the strictest possible interpretation of copyright law in your local country so that does limit us a lot but there are certain notable exceptions some of my more favorite exceptions are if it is a faithful reproduction of the original work so if for example you take a photograph of a copyright expired or exempt work let's say a painting an old painting where the copyright might have expired 100 years ago and the photograph has no artistic merit it is simply a faithful reproduction of that painting the copyright would not apply to that because copyright has to have some novelty or creative input into it to qualify for copyright that is interesting enough that is why data cannot be copyrighted data is not covered by copyright law there is no novelty there is no creativity in data data is a reflection of fact I know that there was a debate a while ago about and it seems to crop up where the data is covered by copyright it is not it is covered by other areas of law in terms of the copyright exceptions for use in Wikipedia I would suggest checking out copyright rules by subject matter on comments it is a pretty complete article and there is a similar choosing a copyright license is another page I would also recommend oh yes let me actually do that I will share the links with you all now and then it gives you a little bit of time to ask me some questions copyright violations okay so what about copyright someone is asking in chat what about copyright violations that is people are misusing content for Wikipedia projects are there any plans to enforce Wikipedia comments etc license so on Wikipedia if some our first start Wikipedia tends to use as most of us know Wikipedia tends to use images based on Wikipedia comments for display on Wikipedia and in order to get images onto comments they have to be under creative commons license that is compatible with Wikipedia comments or they have to have no copyright connection like the copyright is expired there are exceptions to this and that's the fair use exception which I actually haven't talked yet about very much about and if you want to use something under that is if you want to use something that has copyright on it the only way around in Wikipedia is uploading it to Wikipedia itself and under a fair use justification the fair use justification is necessarily quite strict it basically says and we we tend to revert to American law there's a quick disclaimer here in that not every country uses fair use America largely invented the term and more and more countries are now adopting it fair use is quite a flexible philosophy illegal legal philosophy legal concept which differs from the copyright regimes that other countries choose to use so just because something might have a fair use justification in the United States doesn't always mean that you can use it on Wikipedia so for example in South Africa I'm based we got fair dealing which is slightly different from fair use it's actually considerably different fair dealing basically says there's a list of exceptions copyright exceptions and if you're using the copyright material that's listed on this list of exceptions then you're fine you can use this material for basically the public good if it's not on this list of exceptions I'm sorry you can't use it for copyright is applicable most people don't seem to be aware of this on Wikipedia most people seem to just revert to fair use automatically and that's because copyright is complicated yes okay I'll get to that question just now but there are also other regimes I know that civil law treats it a bit differently I'm not that familiar with how civil law treats copyright exceptions my my understanding is that it's somewhat similar to the list system that fair dealing is based on is that yes yeah so it's concrete lists much like fair dealing the advantage of fair use and this is why we like fair use so much other than we're already adopted we're already treated probably a bit incorrectly but we're really treated as a kind of a universal catch-all and exception because our servers are based in America the advantage of fair use is that it's flexible it's not based on the static list and so that makes the the law essentially feature-proof I mean like the example I like to give is that an entity like Google couldn't exist in a country that has a fair dealing or civil law or copyright exception system a list-based system because there's no way for the legislators to have foreseen the use of copyright of material in the way that Google uses it for what they would argue is a public benefit case right so when Google got started they were taking the court and copyright violation terms the American court system found that actually the way that Google was using copyrighted material wasn't a violation of copyright due to the way fair use works and so Google could exist now that's not really relevant to us as Wikipedia editors but it is a nice little example as to how future-proofing works and how flexible the fair use system is which is sort of a bit of a better fit for us other folks Jacob, yes Jacob is a better person to sort of fill us in on those kind of details than I am yes that's right Jacob some countries have fair dealing which is far more limited than fair use Australia I'm just going to answer one more question in saying criminal panorama we are basing that on the sorry it was cut off there Australia doesn't use the language of criminal panorama but it does for some provisions which are similar you should think we haven't but sometimes this is disputed which can be frustrating to our editors yeah I can see that that happens a lot in law where a legal concept does actually exist but it's not coined the same way it is in other parts of the world thereby creating confusion you do often need someone to read the law to answer give you a clear legal opinion about whether or not a copyright exemption exists that you might not be aware of in a certain country Jacob I want to know I want to open up the floor to you and get any feedback from you on any of these questions and what I've said correct me where I'm wrong fill me in where I've left blanks in any aspects like that okay okay you can't go in the speaking version that's unfortunate sorry about that I could try and unmute you ask to unmute okay in the meantime are there any other questions on this issue of copyright because it's a very complicated term I'm just going to add the one more link that I've got to add it's a very complicated field of law I'm not a legal expert I've just sort of spent a lot of time work advocating for copyright reform especially in South Africa but like I said I'm not a legal expert there are legal experts in this room who are encouraged to correct me and fill me in where I am wrong thank you thank you Jacob please do add thoughts in the chat in the meantime and I'm also going to ask if anyone's got any other questions or feedback and you can you're more than welcome to unmute yourself to join us you mentioned that more countries are adopting fair use service and activity but there was a big backlash when we started the process so how is it going in different parts of the world I was just looking on the map if the European Union doesn't have a consistent application either of how things are going generally worldwide do you want to repeat it for people sure I don't know if everyone heard Ian's question so Ian was asking what is the status of copyright advocacy globally in different countries that he sort of wanted a bit of a focus on I'm better placed to talk about the situation in South Africa, I can give a brief account in the European Union but if Dimitar is in the room he is by far the best person to ask that question to because he directly deals with that I'm going to forgive me for dodging the European Union question because I would be more comfortable if Dimmy but in South Africa we've made quite a lot of progress we have managed to get freedom of panorama into the copyright amendment bill which has been passed by both houses of parliament we've also managed to get freedom of panorama into the copyright amendment bill and for the past two years now we've been waiting a bit more than two years, about three years now we've been waiting for the president of South Africa to enact the law so the president has been sitting on the law for a long time now which is actually a violation of the constitution and Blind South Africa took the presidency to court over this issue but long story short we've been successful but we've been frustrated in that the law hasn't been enacted but the good news is that those amendments cannot simply be undone because both houses of parliament have passed them and there's a big to and fro going on about sort of details within the law most of the focus tends to be on fair use, fair use versus fair dealing, the replacement of fair dealing with fair use okay Jacob Jacob is adding some thoughts here so first the term of freedom of panorama was actually somewhat coined by the movement you won't find it in most statutes unless they're passed really recently this is shorthand we have for various combinations that allow the right to take photography in public locations the other thing I'd note from earlier is that many EU countries have varying terms based on the artistic quality of the work which is totally different in the United States that's true actually I know Canada has got the same situation so EU countries won't have fair use exceptions but they have works that are not artistic that enter the public domain only 20 or 25 years leading to a wider array of available works oh thank you Alex thank you Alice that's very kind of you so Nadia asks I want to ask if it's allowed to use the links to copyrighted files uploaded on the internet archive so well internet archive should have a section I'm going to quickly check that internet archive should have a section which lists the copyright of the work my understanding of internet archive is that most if not all of the material there is in some way copyrighted exempt or creative commons but don't take my word for that check the internet archive check the copyright license associated with each use of creative work that you want to want to use and check that and if the internet archive if the copyright license on the internet archive the relevant internet archive page or piece of work is compatible with Wikipedia then you can use it you can certainly link to it I know of nothing on Wikipedia that says that you can't link to copyrighted works because the link is just a line of text taking you to the relevant page to another host and it's the other host's responsibility to respect the copyrights of the user I'm going to say this some caution yeah there we go it's a distinct so Jacob is just clarifying yes linking is distinct and almost never violates copyright in the US and that is my understanding of the world generally as well because that's just text right it's not like you are putting on the copyright owners onto the Wikipedia servers or Wikipedia community so Jacob goes on to explain the European Union a couple years ago had a case where a magazine linked to a copyright violation and they knew they were doing it and were found to have violated copyright so that's why I hesitated because I could think of some parts of the world where linking to a copyright material that is copyright violated can get you into trouble so linking can be complicated Wikipedia having servers based in America and Jacob this is where I'm going to need your expertise there's a legal concept called safe harbor and also Tobias if you can also help me out here which means that if it's on the Wikipedia servers generally American law will apply because the servers are based in America that's a really butchered explanation of safe harbor but it does provide some copyright protection when it comes to Wikipedia and I would appreciate some a guidance here on safe harbor because it's not something I okay so safe harbor protects the internet service provider not the actual user and just to clarify with the service provider also include the person running the servers or does it just include the person providing the internet connection so would it cover Wikipedia as well or would it just cover your ah so again that's based on the definition of how a domestic service provider is defined within the country's law so Jacob has said with regards to safe harbor broadly yes Douglas that is right the foundation may get demands from a copyright owner listed in the transparency report as a DMCA request that we have to grant it includes us running the servers so that the foundation is protected um Mike Peel asks I can't hear what the other person is saying oh sorry Mike yeah that was Tobias he was speaking softly I was trying to repeat um repeat him um and basically just to repeat what Tobias was saying he was saying that um safe harbor only protects the internet service provider and the definition of an internet service provider is dependent on domestic law um so that's just from country to country uh Jacob adds we don't get many DMCA demands it's like 30 or 50 anyway annually and we grant less than half of that yes um there are a lot of spurious copyright requests copyright takedown requests that the foundation receives and I also want to add that um some of the chapters received certainly we're community of South Africa we received a couple one or two legal letters in the past um you know demanding with takedown demands so far all of them have been spurious um it's mostly people in copyright trolling or copyright censorship um and using spurious grounds uh using spurious copyright arguments to engage in copyright censorship so for example um and this is often the little bit of a segue I don't want to go too far down this path because it takes us away from copyright um we sometimes get legal demands about so defamation for example uh that someone has written something in a Wikipedia that's deflamatory and we demand that it be takedown um all of the ones that we as a chapter have received so far have been spurious um and the same is with copyright and copyright censorship is an interesting thing um which I suppose we can explore a little bit later uh but it does exist it's quite similar to patent trolling in a way uh so Jacob adds users who aren't in the United States should be more careful though an example we've had a couple complaints with someone photographed a private house in the European Union these photographs aren't copyright limited and the foundation has no risk hosting them but the photographer may be guilty of trespass locally and could find the property owners that's very good point uh Jacob raises there so Jacob actually raises a there a couple things in Jacob's example um so the first one are the privacy laws in South Africa we also got quite strict privacy laws um about and that's a different area of law it doesn't have a copyright but you can be hit on sort of privacy law issues when photographic houses for example um there's also um uh freedom of panorama issues which he touched on there briefly as well um and uh there's there's different there was one other one that suddenly slipped my mind um in Jacob's example about photographing houses um but the point the moral of the story is uh when it comes to photographing in your country uh it can be a bit of a minefield each country is different oh yes this was the other one Sweden freedom of panorama in Sweden so um this is a great example of what Jacob was talking about a couple years ago about six or seven years ago I think um the Swedish chapter will be able to correct me on this the exact date um case was brought against an individual in Sweden for photographing a fountain located in a public square the fountain was owned by a museum uh the photographer took the photograph put it on commons the museum demanded it be taken down because the museum was making money selling calendars with the fountain printed on it um Wikimedia Sweden uh so Sweden firstly has unclear or ambiguous laws regarding whether the concept of freedom panorama exists in the country or not uh case was brought against um the photographer Sweden decided to defend the photographer and cover the legal costs and damages um went to court uh Wikimedia Sweden very sadly lost the case it didn't thankfully clarify the law in Sweden on this issue um but it does show that in different countries different different laws around say photographing public works um that was actually quite um I mean it was there was a silver lining to Sweden's loss um in that we in Wikimedia South Africa we could use that as an example about why we need a freedom a freedom of panorama exception in the law to clarify the law because things like what happened in Sweden do happen um Jacob adds um so scanning probability scanning probably doesn't do it if the org hired a photographer or actually used the camera the photograph uh public domain work their photographs their photographers version may be protected depending on the country in the United States probably not in Germany probably yes it's the top of my head although photos of public domain works are an example of non-artistic photos that fall in public domain after 20 years in Germany so if you have a museum catalogue from a German museum in 2022 you could probably use it um Mike Peele asks I think that's an answer to my question so change of the topic a little fair enough um oh yes I saw Mike you asked about scale camera oh sorry I'm gonna ask everyone can please just um meet yourself thanks um great let's see if there are any questions I have missed um most of everyone um advocacy oh let's go up what do you guys oh oh yes are there WMF materials for joint advocacy on copyright that is a great question um so the wikimedia foundation does have um public policy office uh that's that's run by by Jan Garlett um Jan is the person to contact about that let me quickly uh get Jan's details uh rather not do that quite so probably do there see my my emails um Jan Garlett I'm gonna put Jan's email I'm sure he will not mind me sharing it here so that people can ask uh Jan for um advocacy materials or questions around the wikimedia foundations um uh advocacy efforts on copyrights that's Jan Garlett media foundation policy okay great that's it anyone else any other questions uh oh yes yes Dimmy has also been very active in the EU copyright reforms absolutely Jacob that's right um I already mentioned uh Dimitar once and he's definitely worth mentioning multiple times more uh Dimmy is super active when it comes to European Union issues and copyright he is the person to ask about the advocacy efforts in that part of the world and um I'm actually I'm quite happy to also share his detail I'm sure he won't mind that either um so Dimmy is a good person to ask about the European Union stuff um yeah that there um for European Union great um any other questions on copyright it's it's a very um it's quite a difficult thing I can say from experience copyright is quite a difficult thing to advocate um uh on or advocate well I wouldn't say for it's a very difficult uh subject to advocate about because um it is an notoriously complicated area of law like I said I'm no legal expert I am a layperson when it comes to legal matters I'm just very interested in copyright and I've become very involved in advocacy in it um but it is it is fascinating when you get into it it also has a lot of um immediate application in Wikipedia and the one unique thing I can say from experience the one unique thing about Wikipedia editors and copyright is that we are one of the few groups that consistently have very deep and detailed experience of dealing with copyright issues um so we're quite unusual in the world of um public benefits entities in that we are very passionate on this issue of copyright because uh we often encounter copyright as a limitation to our ability to provide free knowledge uh creates great Wikipedia articles and that and that is quite a mobilizing sort of force within our movement on this one issue of copyright um I know that a lot of copyright lawyers sort of go oh butch yes please do speak butch uh uh actually this forum is really uh informative and as well as uh educational I hope that we should not stop doing this because uh this is uh hopefully we could have another forum probably in the next few months or weeks and continue discussing about copyright because each and every Wikimedian actually is compelled to know copyright because of involvement in comments uploading and interaction with other Wikimedians and it end up other Wikimedians uh suddenly getting frustrated on uploading anymore on comments because because they thought that people are trolled by random Wikimedians on copyright concerns great thank you butch um that's great to know how how are things going in the Philippines out of curiosity I believe that you quite involved in that part of the world yeah actually uh I placed on the etherpad the two new legislation that were passed actually we're almost on the finish line when we're doing this uh advocacy work actually it's not through an affiliate but purely volunteers uh Jacob knows this uh unfortunately the gone through because there was an election uh last May so we went to another set of uh congressmen again so we're back to square one but uh we're hoping that uh we could have some some way uh for any community member or at least the foundation to uh give us uh capacity building on how to how we would do uh lobbying uh process with with uh legislators because uh we're not actually lawyers and uh but we're advocating for freedom of panorama and good thing that there are already two members of congress who filed bills to include the panorama provision uh and when uh actually the intellectual property office of the Philippines uh explained to us that this provision that was added on the bill actually copied from copyright law of Australia so I don't know if it is copyright per se but it's at least there's a good good step already going here but of course uh voting in congress is a numbers game so we need uh we need more congressmen to support this bill these two bills actually I place it on the e-mail what are those two bills thank you budge and good good luck to you I've also heard about the uh advocacy efforts in Australia um I know that um in South excuse me in South Africa we also look to what's going on in Australia with quite a bit of interest uh sort of policy makers um interestingly enough I've also heard that the Australian policy makers are looking at South Africa and that's because uh Australia and South Africa have got very similar legal systems um and very similar legal origins especially when it comes to copyright law we both got a copyright law based in British copyright law and so reforms in one country are sort of seen as very similar to efforts to reform in our other country like they'll have similar legal discussions actually for the Philippines we we did it uh we our copyright law is actually uh copied from the states a lot of uh landmines that we encounter when we're uploading work so good thing that there are volunteers who write to the IP office in the Philippines proposing changes to the law and good thing that the IP office actually in the Philippines is supporting our advocacy efforts it's it's up to the congressman actually to listen to us yeah yeah absolutely um I just saw uh Mike's Mike's made a humorous comment uh did someone forget to copyright the copyright law so they couldn't be copied um believe it or not that that is covered um but yes that's right actually the law usually can't be copyrighted as Jacob points out uh which is quite quite humorous um I know I know of a project in South Africa uh that one of our uh partner uh partner organizations opened up uh worked on uh about a year or two ago where they were digitizing all of the government gazettes um so the government law is right what government is publishing and they'll publish and they were digitizing that unmask um and that that the copyright is just not something that they needed to worry about uh because except from South African law um Switzerland there is a federal exception for copyright on law texts and things like minutes of meetings oh interesting yes that makes sense yeah they generally governments are not very concerned about copyright and material um South African government interesting enough I can't speak for all governments when it comes to photographs um is very sensitive about their content being useful commercial purposes um I know that the American government and the Russian government uh actually just release all of their as much of their content as possible under an open license to encourage uh public benefit use of their material um and that's that's something that we advocate for as well certainly in South Africa the South African government adopt that a more open license so that we can start using South African government photographs on Wikipedia um because at the moment the NC license as I mentioned in the beginning prevents us from doing that so um way too many so we've got another comment here in Switzerland there is a federal yep that's right way too many Swiss on Wikimedia Commons misuse the template for this exception to upload other works by their government interesting interesting I can see that happening uh Joseph adds uh we do we have data of country that observe this co-law um this is copyright law I don't know of any data sort of mapping um how different governments uh regard their own copyright and there will be a good project actually to engage in to avoid confusion um mapping differences in copyright law is something that we as community the Wikipedia community would certainly benefit from greatly because Wikipedia is a complicated issue and it's made exponentially more complicated um by the fact that different countries have often very different laws when it comes to copyright and mapping those differences uh would help clarify things something that's already really complicated so that's something I advocate for um I see that we are I think we are out of time but I'm happy to go on and uh let people stay up whoever's interested but I do sort of uh one let other people know that the rest of the wikimania program is is now going to proceed um but I I will stay on and and chat with anyone who wants to stay um Joseph asks yeah yeah hello uh my name is Anton I am an editor on ukrain and wikipedia I am programs coordinator at wikimedia ukraine and today I will talk about how Russia's war in ukraine has impacted the ukrainian wikimedia community so uh we will have a presentation I will do a presentation with a general overview of the russian war in ukraine for those who perhaps might not have thought it closely uh but the bulk of my presentation will be devoted to the impact of the war on the ukrainian wiki community it will go for about 15 minutes so not 10 but about 15 minutes then we will take a look at four pre-recorded videos from a few different ukrainian wikimedians who have been affected by the war who have joined the army have been volunteering have been displaced by the war uh those videos were specifically recorded for wikimania participants and we will uh we will take a look at them and then if you have any questions uh there is some space at the end for that and you will be able to and I will review the questions you can write in the feedback chat but just as a reminder there is some lack between uh there is some lack so it's better to write your questions beforehand and I will review them at the end of the presentation so let's start and uh let's start with a brief background again for people who might not have voted closely uh february the 24th of this year became perhaps the most memorable date for uh millions of ukrainians for the lives of millions of ukrainians including myself it is the date when russia started military aggression against ukraine when russia started its military invasion uh it is not the first instance of russian military aggression against ukraine but it is at the beginning of the big war which has appended the lives of all ukrainians and around a third of the population has been displaced either within ukraine or have been forced to flee the country and uh according to the estimates uh by the ukrainian government caused to 30 000 people 30 000 civilians were killed in the war and undisclosed number of ukrainian military personnel ukrain's economy has been decimated by the war but importantly this war has had a global impact as well so for example just as one example the blockade has been threatened in global food security with the effects in many countries in Africa and elsewhere but again I want to talk not so much about the war itself as more about the impact on the ukrainian community in in ukraine and like millions of other ukrainians dozens of volunteers from the ukrainian wiki community have had to flee their homes to try to save themselves in the face of the war thankfully many people have already been able to return especially as the cave region as northern ukraine had been liberated and myself included I also was able to return to cave but still many people are not able to return because first of all southern and eastern ukraine is still either occupied or placed to active to active military action and other parts of ukraine while safer are still not fully safe are still under the risk of a constant missile attacks there are multiple air raid sirens every day so many people are not able to return especially parents with young children that concerns not only that concerns of ukrainians but also people from the wiki media community many people have joined the army and are now serving in various roles in either in active combat or serving in various logistical and other supplementary roles in the army at least one wiki media unfortunately died in combat and among civilian wiki media we have not been able to establish contact with at least one person from Marjoul which has been the site of perhaps which has been the cities that perhaps suffered the most from the war and we fear that something terrible might have happened to him but we have not been able to establish to establish a contact here is a photo of who is the wiki media who died in combat while defending the KU region defending KU in early Marjoul but apart from honoring him and other people I also wanted to take a statistical look the impact on the community in terms of numbers and what we see is that at the beginning of the war a user activity decreased sharply on Ukrainian wiki media so we had a 40% decrease year over year in terms of user activity because people were just not been able to have enough technical possibilities and enough time and enough opportunities to edit wiki media fortunately the user activity has more or less bounced back as the life became more stable for people but still a lot of people are not able to fully return to volunteering in the wiki media ecosystem it is a small sample but in June two thirds of wiki media ukraine members in a survey reported that their activity had decreased either considerably or somewhat since the out invasion and the most widespread reasons as you might have guessed are lack of time for example when you volunteer or caretaker in responsibilities it's also technical and ability so literally no internet and no possibility to edit wiki media while in a bomb shelter and also psychological stress has played a big role here is an example of ukrainian wiki media meeting online during the war trying to support themselves psychologically and in terms of support there has been a lot of support to community members unfortunately and we have been working on that and we are also really grateful to everyone who has joined so there has been financial support of food and hygiene packages sent to community members in need wiki media ukraine and the local community more broadly has been working on that there has been a support with real vocation and accommodation outside ukraine so multiple affiliates from Europe and even from outside of Europe also have reached out and offered help and multiple community members as well it's been also really helpful and we are grateful for that and the wiki media foundation, wiki media ukraine and many other organizations and people provided information support, useful materials and so on but outside of the impact on the community itself I also wanted to take a look at the impact on wiki media leadership the impact of the war on wiki media leadership and here we see a complete opposite picture here we see that while the activity of wiki media volunteers has dropped because of the war readership interested has grown and it grew considerably because people have been in need of verified information people have been in need of information in general trying to understand how the war impacts their lives trying to understand everything from different weapons systems to different societal phenomena and april became the second highest months in the history of ukraine and wiki media in terms of the number of user views of wiki media articles and obviously predictably the topic of the war has been most popular the article about russia's invasion itself has gathered around 3 million views in less than half a year which is an absolute record for ukraine and wiki media it's in ukrainian but here is a list of the most popular articles on ukraine and wiki media during the war and yes it is the topics of the war are people have been really in need of information on the topic of the war and they have been termed to wiki media to get it there are hundreds and likely thousands of articles only on ukrainian wiki media covering everything from major battles to war memes and and also of course it's only the ukrainian edition i'm talking about there is extensive coverage in other one good traditions as well on thursday during the first day of wikimania we had a session devoted to the efforts of covering ukrainian cultural heritage which is under threat the session called glum crisis you can go back and leverage that and also to briefly say that there was a sematic week which later turned to a permanent project in ukrainian wiki media to coordinate the efforts to cover the war since there has been such a there has been such a huge need such a huge need by readers in this in reading about this topic as i am wrapping up my presentation here are some helpful links where you can learn more so today i just i i was talking about some general trends but it is more instructive and more interesting to read personal stories of people who have been affected and i sent a link to the field chat and it is also in the second point of this slide stories of ukrainian wiki media during the war you can open this link and read some personal stories most of them are available in english and have been published in the signpost or on diff there is also the general portal with helpful links devoted to the Russian invasion of ukraine which you can check and there are many sources providing general coverage of ukraine in english including the cave independent which is the largest english one which are taught about ukraine and finally how you can help there are many ways to help ukraine in its fight for democracy and freedom the first option is just to speak out and voice your support on different levels if you can you can if you can donate money that is also a good way to help and there are many many places where the money would be helpful and also you can help improve the coverage of ukraine on wiki media so for example in february and march we had ukrainian cultural diplomacy months on wiki media which only accidentally coincided with the war which attracted a lot of attention and thousands of articles about ukrainian culture were created but there is no limit and there are still topics in need of coverage so you can join and help us improve the coverage of ukraine on wiki media on different language editions and now we will take a look at some a few videos from people who have recorded their greetings and their stories for wikimania participants hi i'm renway and i'm editing wiki media projects for 8 years now mainly focusing on ukrainian wikis and cross wiki patrolling despite not living in ukraine for a couple of years now a war in my home country massively influenced my work on wiki media projects for example right after russian invasion i was quickly appointed as temporary admin on ukrainian wikipedia as some of our administrators were either drawn to army or had to escape the war i also happened to be awake early in the morning on 24th of february i created the article on russian invasion on ukrainian wikipedia only in nightmares could i imagine creating a page on war that was declared against my country also i was wiki media ukrainian employee at that time responsible for ukrainian cultural diplomacy month which suddenly became so much more important for wiki media community in real life i joined my fellow expatriates providing help for refugees from ukraine and became part of some of informational campaigns i want to thank wiki medians from all around the globe for words and proposals of support that i received in last 6 months i hope we will find ourselves in better world soon but for now take care Olga, i am from here in ukraine i am a press secretary and a board member at wiki media ukraine since the beginning of the russian full scale invasion i haven't edited any article at wikipedia at all i still cannot read books but lately i started to watch some all soap operas so hope i will be back soon of course i am involved in meetings with other board members organizational committee i was in ukraine do some communication activities with the wiki media ukraine com team there was few good news lately Odessa city in the south of ukraine in english wikipedia finally received its correct spell with 1s and also ukrainian wikipedia catches up the arabic wikipedia and i must say i am very proud of all ukrainian wikipedia and actually for all wiki contributors who helped to cover the correct information about the war i want to say thank you all for this a few weeks after the full scale invasion started i moved to germany with my 4 years old son i met many great people on my way and i will be grateful for them forever i want to say thanks to romanians, pols, germans people from the country that i crossed on my way actually to all the people from different countries and representatives of different nations for your support and solidarity my job connected to the help of people affected by the war in ukraine now and i am glad that i have the opportunities to be helpful to my country and my compatriots right now in this hard time now i am in kyiv at my home the air attack right system yesterday worked a few times a day and today there were no sirens but it's not the evening though i come for few weeks to meet my family friends and just visit some places in the capital of great people in kyiv i wish all of you never feel the war time never heard the sirens never made the hardest decisions in your life in one day and my sincere condolences for those who have already experienced this on its own stay safe contribute to wikip projects thank you all for your support and let's spread the free knowledge and try to make this world a bit better place to live in hello guys and girls ladies and gentlemen my name is Oleg Anders i am wikipedia editor also i am phd in political science and now i serve in armen forces of ukraine since february 2022 so one year ago i took part in wikilas airs photo contest and i won some of the prizes for this contest i uploaded a lot of unique photos from the protest against the destruction of natural reserves in ukraine so i am very proud of being being involved in this photo contest one year ago now after the start of full scale warming in ukraine i serve for five months in armen forces of ukraine as an officer also i would like to thank all the wikipedia editors for the invitation to your event also last five months i took part not only in russian-ukrainian war but in some other activities like the creation of my fifth photo exhibition which took place in Kiev and so called mala opera so this photo exhibition was devoted to the russian-ukrainian war and all that i have seen in this war also i have helped to transport and to move at least 40 stray cats from kyiv zoo from the shelter which is called cat town i was one of the co-founders of NGO that helps stray cats in kyiv zoo to survive and to find new home so these cats in the middle of the war in march this year we moved to Poland and after them sent our NGO help to find new homes for these cats so this is my main activities last five months and i hope Ukraine will win this war i hope i will see all your friends all your friends in real life in one year in the next meeting i will be there so thanks a lot see you hi my name is Irina i am an art historian and researcher and in January i joined wikimedia ukraine as a project manager for the wikilabs earth international photo contest so despite russian troops gathering on the ukrainian borders i have been exercising plans for my spring and summer i was planning to go to hardkip to visit my mother who moved there last year and i wanted to go to marigold pool where the cultural life was just blooming and i wanted to organize an art exhibition in my home city of separation but on 24 february i realized that this is a privilege to be able to be friends for a future and when i heard first explosions i was determined to stay in kyiv in two days i and my friends went to louis and later in spring i moved to the uk i so yeah here i am in london recording this video and building my life from scratch i go to the protests i recently had my first prides with the ukrainian community in brighton city and i just actually came back from another protest today we shared the downing street with the free palestine movement i am going for another protest on friday and honestly i am not gonna stop as you may know it's not possible to take fights from ukraine anymore and obviously you cannot take fight from road to ukraine so this is my dream and this is my plan to take first flight from london to kyiv a capital of independent independent ukraine so see you there stand with ukraine ok thank you for watching i think that with we are running out of time and we started a bit later so if you have if there is a couple of questions i can take them but i do not see questions so far in the etherpad so if you have any questions further if you have any questions after this call after this session you can reach out to me directly i will upload the slides to wikimedia comments and we'll share the slides we'll share the slides with wikimedia participants you will be able to make use of the links in the presentation and thank you for joining the session see you at wikimedia


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Denver vs Baltimore here we go first quarter and guess what you love what if the Broncos score 24 points we could call 24 7 furnace for a 24 dollar furnace cleaning before the winter 24 dollars but the Broncos have to score 24 points today I know 24 7 it's a furnace 24 7 something anyway that's good news kickoff coming it's raining Baltimore Denver let's go that's the name of it fix it 24 7 fix it 24 7 so they got to score 24 points oh no me I like defense when them all that was rough we should have won that game Broncos lose to the Baltimore Ravens time to go build a shed proves true love approves yeah we actually technically we can lock them in there okay let them out Joseph there you go right so it's gonna go it's gonna go against the well I'm I'll show you here in a minute I gotta go get pavers I'll explain later after dinner we did it Kyle and Uncle Troy don't give up don't give up don't ever give up it was kind of hard for a pre fabricated piece of plastic the door works the door works on the shed that's a good sign alright children I'm surprised our house is still standing basically I need to measure for some pavers to create a little more slab space for the shed to sit on and yes that's not good but true love true loves true loves coming through in the clutch look what she bought from target target 28 cents a couple days ago so I'm gonna measure about six feet with a 12 inch ruler in case you didn't know I'm obsessed with my yard I love a big lawn I didn't have a lawn growing up as a kid we had rocks and yuckas and cactus and so I just love grass and like the ability for the kids to just run around all night all day going crazy in the backyard so we went with this shed in order to not take up space from the yard so basically it's kind of like a half shed it's you know it's a half the size of a normal shed but I think all of our stuff will fit in it in fact we're gonna try right now but that's why it's butted up against the house and it's kind of like a half shed it's it's cool let me show you and I just had to get a few pavers to extend the concrete just a wee bit question of the day when you get your life organized how does it feel whether it's at work whether it's at the house whether it's both whether it's organizing like writing your life down into a planner and having a game plan every day or whether it's cleaning out your garage or whether it's going through your wardrobe like how does it make you feel folks I think you know my answer I think you know my answer


John Parrish, California State Geologist, P-A-R-R-I-S-H, California Geological Survey Department of Conservation. Gotcha. So tell me what's bringing you in here today so we can kind of set the stage for what it is you're doing here? Well, this morning about 8.30 we started experiencing a swarm of earthquakes south of the Salton Sea about five miles west of the town of Brawley in Imperial County. And swarms in this area are not uncommon. However, some of the magnitudes of the faults in this swarm are uncommon and therefore caught our attention. So what kind of magnitudes have we seen today? We've had over 100 earthquakes so far today, most in the magnitude three range. However, there have been eight earthquakes over magnitude four and two of those have been over magnitude five. And that obviously is what launches some extra concern and just paying closer attention then? Yes, it's not just the clustering we're used to, these kind of swarms here, but it's these larger magnitude earthquakes that have caught our attention. Somebody would ask, is this surprising to you or is this something you guys expect to see? Earthquakes in this area, swarms in this area have been going on for decades. The last great period of swarms was back in the 1970s. It's been fairly quiet although there have been a few swarms. So seeing a swarm here today is not something that we did not expect. There's a lot of talk about the big one happening somewhere along the San Andreas Fault and obviously them feeling a shaking in Southern California, it makes them think, is this some sort of a warning for the next big earthquake or somehow connected to it? We don't think so. We've had, as I said, plenty of swarms down here. None of the swarms in the past have ever led to an earthquake on any of the nearby earthquake faults. So we're not too concerned at this point about this triggering any earthquakes on any nearby faults.  Yes, today about 2 o'clock we had a conference call with the California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council, which is a subcommittee of the Emergency Management Agency. These are experts in earthquakes, both seismology and geology. And our considered opinion was that although this was a large swarm with some high-magnitude earthquakes in it, it is not unexpected or uncommon. And we would expect that this swarm would last for several days before tapering off and could actually last for several more weeks. Is there a chance that they could see a larger magnitude than the 5.5 we just saw? Yes, probably within the next 24 to 36 hours we would not be surprised to see an earthquake between magnitude 5 and 6 in this area. Describe what's a magnitude 6 earthquake like in this area? What kind of things happen? Well, at a magnitude 5 you'll see the ground shaking. You'll feel the shaking. At a magnitude 6 you'll feel it even more so. California, of course, is an earthquake country and people need to be prepared for this. At a magnitude 5 or 6, you will see things fall off shelves, books may come off shelves, in stores canned goods and bottles may come off the shelves. So you could see a considerable ground shaking from this type of an earthquake. This may seem like a dumb question, but is it better that this is happening out in Brawley, which is not like downtown Los Angeles? Is there a difference of this happening here versus maybe in a densely populated area? Not especially. These all affect people the same way. In a densely populated area like Los Angeles, there may be more people feeling things and there may be more structures that will be affected. But the damage amount would still be expected to be the same proportionately. So what are you doing here at the State Operations Center today? We've come into the Operations Center so we can monitor the swarm and that we can discuss possibilities and what warnings should be given out to the public and to emergency managers.


Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy Elliott. In this video I'm going to show you how to build the best friend in two minutes. This is called the meet and greet. If you can get this down, you will be unstoppable. Check it out. Okay guys, check it out. This is going to be a video about the meet and greet. So let me explain this to you. I don't care if you have an 8 step process, 12 step process, 2 step process, 20 step process. The meet and greet is number one. Now we are talking about live, face to face. This isn't going to be phone training. This is going to be live, face to face. Whenever you meet somebody, this is really important for you to think about.  I'm going to go over both of these types of sales people with you in this video. I'm going to explain to you how the typical sales person works, the way their mind works, why they don't achieve great things. And I'm going to show you how a master, when he's going out to shake somebody's hand, he's envisioning how the deal's going to go where she is and they get it to go their way. They keep massive control and it all starts at the meet and greet. By the way, let me just say this real quick. Do you guys want to be closers? Do you? Do you want to be one of the best closers in the world? When do you start closing? Is it at the end when it's time to present numbers? No, you start closing right at the gate when you shake their hand. You're closing them on that you're the person that they can do business with, that they want to do business with, and that they're going to do business with. Now, let me talk about a typical sales person for a minute. And what I'd like you to do is take lots of notes during this video, but do this. Guys, let's take the timeline of when you say hello to somebody up until the final end when you close them during negotiating. Okay? Now, the first three seconds, the first three seconds, you've got to take control right out the gate. Hey, guys, what's going on? It's Andy. How are you doing, ma'am? How are you doing? By the way, beautiful family. Welcome to my home. So glad you're here. That's not a typical sales person. That's a master.  Hey, how are you doing? My name is Andy. So what brought you guys into the dealership? Okay. Okay. Are you here to see anybody? No. All right. Well, I'll be helping you today. And what are you looking for? Come on, man. I know who you are. Listen to me. Let me say something. You don't have to have my type of energy. You don't. You just need to listen to what I say. I'm going to show you how not to be a typical sales person in the first three seconds. Carry the confidence, okay? Carry the confidence. Carry the certainty in your eyes, in your face, and in your posture. When you go out and say hi to them, that you're the person that can help them. How about we start there? Nothing has even happened. I'm walking out to you. How do I look? How do I feel about myself? They can buy, they're going to buy, and they came to buy as long as I do my job. Is that what I'm thinking? Or am I coming out desperate, right?  Where's your mind at? They can see through your eyes right when you walk up. You hadn't even said hello. In the first three seconds, have your mindset right. Have the certainty through the roof. Have that fire in your eyes that you love dealing with people. And you're passionate about taking care of people and solving problems and that you can do it. And if they see that in you, you know what will happen? They'll believe in you. If they believe in you, they'll buy for you. It's that easy. Now, right out the gate, when you say hi, a lot of people skip steps. Let me explain what that means. Hey, how are you doing? My name's Andy. What's your name? My name's Don. Don, how you doing? Welcome to the store. How can I help you today? Andy, I'm looking for a truck. Great. We got lots of trucks. Let's check them out. They're right here. We walk out to the lot. Where was the common ground? Tell me. Did I skip steps right there? When I said hi, okay? Did I build a relationship with that person? Did I get to know him? Did I ask him where did you drive in from today? Where are you from? Let me ask you something. Did you see something on the internet? Or was you just driving by? Did I go through any of that with him? Did I get a chance to shake every single person's hands? Their kids' hands also? Did I get a chance to shake the people's hands who didn't get out of the car? Who are still sitting in there? Which why did they come? They might be co-signing. You better get your stuff together and slow down. Typical salespeople say hi, move fast. By the way, what is your customer's goals to get you to speed up and move fast? You know why? The faster you move, the less of a relationship we build, the easier it is for me to negotiate with you because we don't know each other. And then also on top of that, what else would it be? People buy from people that remind them of their friends. You know what that means? I'm going to ask you, what's your best price? You're going to give me a price that makes it make sense for me to stay and buy because I'm only here for the price. I don't care about you because who are you? We haven't built any rapport with each other. So I want you to think about it for a minute, okay? Typical salespeople, they skip steps every time. They skip steps. Don't skip steps. This meet and greet, building common ground. This is one step. This video is one step that you will have to master if you want to increase your year-to-date and go through the roof.  This is the most important step in the world. Number two, the customers want you to move fast. Don't. So what are you going to do right out the gate? You're going to put your back to the lot. Why would I put my back to the lot? Because I'm not opening the pathway for them to go run out on the pavement. Once they do, they're scattered like mice. Now I'm going to chase them all down. How can I help you?  What do you need? Do you like that one? Oh my god. Is that how you want to do business? No. Put your back to the lot. Slow down. So guys, tell me what's going on. Where did you drive from today? Where? Oh my god. I love that place. Yeah, that's awesome. Tell me about it. Have you guys been there a long time? Get them to talk. People that talk about themselves will automatically build a relationship with you because people like to hear themselves talk. Get them speaking, okay? I know you got a mouth. You think you're the best salesman in the world and you think you running it is the way to go. It's not. Listen. Number one, they're going to tell you how to sell but number two, the more they talk, the more comfortable they become with you. Don't let them move fast. Look, don't let them go straight to the lot. They say, hi. What's your name? This is what I'm looking for. We got some over here. Let's go check them out. That's too fast. I'll walk straight up to a truck. I'll be like, hey, what's the price on this one? I think it's 38.9. Cool. What would they sell it for? We'll have to go in and talk to my manager. Why don't you go running and ask him. Dude, you want to get treated like that? You want to? Do me a favor. Don't build a best friend with them. Be a typical salesperson. You'll get that. You'll get lots of it. You want to never have that happen? Build a best friend. Now, I'm going to go over what a master salesperson does here in a second, but I'm going to continue. A typical salesperson doesn't shake everyone's hand. They don't. Let me explain this to you, okay? The wife, the husband, the kids, the nanny, the guy riding in the back of the truck, I do not care. If somebody came in with that person, if somebody came in, you're shaking everybody's hands. I mean, I'm not the best at like predicting what's going on in a scenario, but I'm pretty sure that if someone's at a car lot, they're there for a reason. There's somebody that's going to be making a part of a decision in a minute. And by the way, you may think, man, that person's not going to do anything. It's just the kid. It's a teenager, right? Why would I shake the teenager's hand? The car's for mom and dad. Why would I shake the teenager's hand? Let me tell you why. You don't build a good report with that teenager. You know what's going to happen? After about 30 minutes, once the parents did find a car they want, you know what the teenager wants to do? Go home. They don't want to be at the car lot anymore. Guess what? You just lost a deal because you didn't rebuild a report with the teenager. I'm going to be like, okay, how you doing? Hey, by the way, sir, ma'am, how you doing kids? Okay, and by the way, knock, knock, knock on the window. Hey, what's your name? Oh, Tanya, that's cool. Hey, are you in high school or what? Okay, awesome. Is this for her? No, this isn't for her. Listen, when she's ready, I'm going to have your parents buy you whatever you want. Lamborghini, I don't care. I'm just kidding. Listen, hey, I'm glad she's here. By the way, you don't have to wait in the truck, Tanya. If you want, you can go inside. Look, hot cup of coffee, cold water. I got a couch.  They'll sit in the back of the truck. Come on inside. Would you guys mind if I brought Tanya inside? That way she can kind of sit down and chill out while we're out here on the lot. Would that be cool so she doesn't have to wait in the truck? Is that okay with you guys? Awesome. Also, I got a vending machine in here. Guys, let me walk her in here real quick. Boom. I just take care of Tanya. Who is she? She's a teenager that could potentially ruin the deal for us here in about 30 to 45 minutes. By the way, if Tanya likes me right and I brought her inside and I treated her great, I showed her what massive love. Went and helped her parents find a vehicle. When we come back in, I'll say, Tanya, I'm moving your parents as fast as possible. Don't worry about it. I'm gonna be quick at my job, okay? Also, when we're done, I got something for you, Tanya. I got something for you, okay?  I got something for you. Tanya's like, I like this guy. I don't even know what's going on. I'm just a teenager, but she doesn't want to go home.  This is real life. You know how many deals that I've seen missed because somebody didn't shake somebody's hand in the car? You know how many deals that I've seen miss because somebody sat in a car for too long while someone else was looking for a car? Somebody got tired of being in the car a lot? Trust me, you'd get tired too. You know how many deals that I've seen missed because somebody didn't build a rapport with everybody? There was one person left out and you underestimated what that person was there for. But you underestimated who everybody was. But the grandma, the one that you didn't really say anything to because it was the grumpy grandma, right? She was the one co-signing the entire time. But they didn't say that in the beginning because they wanted to try to buy the car on their own.   She would like me. I promise you. You know why?  From this point forward, you're not going to skip steps. You're going to make sure that you don't move fast. Typical sales people move fast. You're going to make sure you don't go straight to the lot. You're going to slow down. Put your back to the lot. Build the best friend, okay? I'm going to show you how to do that here. You're going to shake everybody's hand, everyone, and you're going to make sure you build rapport with them, okay? And then lastly, okay, you're going to build a strong relationship.  Have you ever heard the term, if you have it, write it down.  Okay, so I'm going to explain this to you, right? When I show people massive love, when I compliment them sincerely, right? When I'm being kind to them, when I show them that they're important, what do people want to feel significant? They want to feel important. I'm going to make them feel important, right? What happens when I do all that and I build that great strong relationship with them right out the gate? Guess what? Number one, I have control. Number two, I have a best friend and within two minutes they want to adopt me and take me home because they like me. Number three, nobody feels left out. And guess what? Number four, it's time for me to do my job. Here's the kicker. I can do my job way better when they like me.  Remember that. They're pulling up to a car lot.  Any kind of sales name. They're going to judge you right off the gate. Here's the deal. Tear the wall down. Tear it down. Get rid of it. And at the end of the day, look, if you went to a Starbucks right now, Starbucks, and somebody was taking a survey, what do you think about sales people? People be like robbers, thieves, cheats, liars. Dude, no man. What would they say after they met you? You see, my customers love me. I give them a show worth paying for. And guess what?  You know why? Because I build strong relationships and I'm good at my job. And I want to make sure when they come in, they get treated at the highest level. So what do you have to do right off the gate? The meet and greet has to be building common ground and you have to show them that you're the person that can take care of them. And guess what? It's not only you showing them. They have to feel that you're that person.


hello everyone this is amitdan of amitdan.com if this is your first time here or if you're a repeat visitor thank you for your support on this channel i'm always trying different and new ideas if that is something you're interested in visit for more if you're only interested in review videos there'll be links in the description box below today i'll be opening an unboxing asus pro art 27 inch monitor so the model number for this monitor is pa 27 8 qv so this is the 27 inch monitor and you can see some of the specs right here uh one of them is that this is very color accurate and it has already you know color preset so you don't have to do anything and this monitor you know rotates swivels tails and so this is going to be very good for work for from home or you know if you're a content creator and this will give you a better color accuracy than most other monitors because this is especially made for you know content creation or you know people who are doing uh video editing so i'll just unbox the monitor and we'll take a look at it what we have inside and then you know i'll show you how the monitor looks on my workstation and then i'll show you how the monitor looks when i set up and everything so this is a quick look of how my workstation looks right now and the monitor you're looking at is actually a 21.5 inch so this is not that big so once i replace it with the new monitor i'm going to you know show you the workstation again and definitely it's gonna look much bigger uh after the monitor replacement so let's go to start unboxing and then i'll show you what comes with the monitor after the unboxing this is what you get with the monitor so we have hdmi cable mini port cable power card and then we have the base so the base actually it's a little bit heavy and looks like it's kind of made of metal and on the other side of the base it looks like this so i'll just put it here and here they provided some brochure so this is just a vip member notice or it's just like in some sort of membership and then we have the color calibration testing report so basically the color calibration is already done for you and it has all the results right here so i'll just leave it aside here but if you want to take a look at it you can pause it and look at it later and then they provided a nice envelope and inside that here there is the another calmen verified certification so basically it just tells that you know the monitor is calmen verified and calibrated for creative perfection so it's just calibrated and verified and everything all done and there's nothing on this side and here there's just a small manual just to you know help with the setting up for the first time and let's open it up and it looks like this inside but whenever i have something i try not to read the manual as much as possible so i'm going to just put it here and here you can see the monitor uh sorry you're looking at my reflection also because of the light so the monitor is 27 inch and then some buttons are all in here this is the power button and some of the other buttons and that one thing which is exceptional is that the ruler so you have right a fixed ruler right here and i know that you know inside the monitor you have the option to set up a ruler on other sites as well but this is kind of like you know physical ruler we have which would be very good for video editing and other like you know photo editing or other works which would require a ruler and then we have some of the specs right here which we looked at it before the one thing i can see here that you know actually this is energy star qualified which i didn't know before so that's a good thing it's going to you know save on it's going to save on energy and then let's take a look at the back of the monitor so you're going to take a look at the ports of this monitor and you can see that you know this monitor comes with lots of ports so the first one we have dvi i'm not sure why even they provided dvr i don't think anyone uses these anymore and then we have hdmi port this is to connect your monitor and then we have a display port in and we have a mini display port in so these are two actually display port compatible and then then the next one we have is the line out which is right here and then we have earphone jack and then we have usb upstream port this is 3.0 and then we have usb downstream port and then there are two more usb port which we have right here and here you have the power button and here you have the power input so in terms of you know ports it looks like they provided a lot of option so you don't have to like you know run through too many ports or probably a fewer adapters and converters so that's a very good thing let's set this up and then i'll show you the rest of my video once i finish setting up the monitor and we'll go over the color and everything i don't have any problems setting up the monitor and making it you know operational so what i noticed that the hdmi cable is provided with this monitor somehow it didn't work with this monitor so at first i thought that you know there's something wrong with the monitor but then i switched my hdmi cable from my old monitor then it started working and everything seemed to be okay so what i can tell you about this monitor that you know if you look at outside that the monitor actually doesn't look high end it kind of just look in a plastic or has the you know it doesn't have that high end feeling so it kind of feels cheap and if you can look at the if you look at the body and everything it's kind of you know matte finishing but somehow you know it looks very plasticky and not like you know high end product although this is an expensive monitor so i'll just go over briefly about the menus and settings so here you're going to see some of the buttons which you'd require to turn on the monitor and set up the monitor these buttons are too small and i wish they had you know made these buttons bigger and better because they also you know these buttons don't look good as well so this is the power button and then you press any one of these buttons then you're going to get the quick menu or start guide and then here you can choose like you know you can choose what you want to have on this menu for example might the last two options are user mode one and user mode two but you can choose or have it something else and then once you click here you can actually click any one of these and then you're going to get the same shortcut and then you have to just like you know press on the menu which is going to be actually right here so you can match the icon here and here so if you press it then you're going to get the option which is going to be right here so for example you can see that there are some settings which pro art preset and then if you just you know scroll down you're going to get more options like you know blue light filter and the brightness and sharpness and volume and everything now once you click on the pro art setting so if you just you know click on it then you're going to get some options here and by default asus provided some of the options right here for example you can see that you know there's the standard mode which is right here then s rgb and then rec 709 so there are lots of modes here and some of these modes actually cannot lower the brightness which you know is factory set you can change some other options but not some of the for example brightness or color so for example standard mode or sorry the rgb mode doesn't give you that option to change the brightness because if you go here and click on it then you're going to see that you know there's no brightness mode here but you can sit some options on the other modes so what I did I just you know went to use the option one and two and then I just you know chose these to make everything to my own preferences and that's what I have been using so something else you can see here that there is the blue light filter but it doesn't work with all options some of the options have preset filter and then here here is the image option and then here is the volume option the volume is the sound speaker attached to this monitor is okay it's not that high quality but you know it's not expected anyway and then here you can you know choose your cable setting and then here you have some other settings USB charging key lock language and everything and then here you can change the shortcut button to choose what you want so basically these are the main options now what I'm going to do I'm going to just show you some pictures to give you an idea of how the color is the color is very good I like it I just don't like the body it looks kind of cheap or plasticky so let me just show you some color some pictures to show you what kind of color you can expect so I'm going to just you know go to some of the pictures I chose and you can see that you know the color is really vivid and very nice color rendering so for example let's move on to the next one here you there's a little bit of reflection which you may not be able to you know see the perfect color because of the light reflection but you know the color is really good I cannot complain about that here's another picture and another picture let me just try to adjust okay so it looks like it works this way a little bit better so I'm going to just show you you know those pictures again to give you an example of the color so for example if you take a look at the color here and then here's another one and here's another one and here's another one here's one so definitely the color you're going to see through the camera and your own monitor is not going to be a perfect match what you know you're going to see personally but definitely this you know monitor is very good at color rendering and everything so there's no complaint about that so I just have a complaint about you know these buttons and the overall looks of the monitor it looks it doesn't look like you know high-end monitor so here is what you're looking at and here is from the back of the monitor my hundred $25 HP monitor which looked much better and more expensive but somehow this is a 400 plus monitor it doesn't look that good when you're just looking at like an outside the monitor or the body of the monitor I'm not talking about picture quality so definitely there's no complaint about the picture quality and video editing and everything so this is a very good you know monitor for video editing or content creation because you have lots of space and you get very excellent color rendering so you don't have to worry about like you know the color looks bad or anything and let me just show you a couple of more features so this one actually has some some options for example you can have a ruler on the sides if you turn it on so let's do that and so right now you can see that you know there's a ruler right here on the edge which is going to be right here and then you can also see that there's a ruler right here so you can have the ruler if you want you can actually choose paper size on your screen so for example is it has A4 and B5 so if you click on A4 then you're going to see a paper size right here which you can match if you're trying to print something so you're not like you know doing it and guesswork for example if you look very carefully then you're going to see the you know paper size right here and you can change it to the next size which is B5 so you can see that you know there's the B5 paper size so that's another feature it has so some of these features it offers like these are unique and I haven't seen I don't think I've seen this in you know anywhere else so definitely if you need those it's going to come in handy that type of features so overall I'm happy with the purchase this was purchased with my own money there's no affiliated links no nothing so that way you get totally honest and unbiased opinion thank you for watching this video there will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you


Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. This is Melissa Arma with the stocks. What should I'm here today to review GPS? This was the stocks we'll show top pick today in the room. And guess what? It worked. As you know, I loved it short. I finally have my beautiful fabulous new computer set up. Reconfiguring my hotkeys and my charts was, well, quite a situation, and I still have everything perfect. But we all go through these processes and changes. It's part of trading. And when you first get started, you have to make sure everything is just the way that you like it. And then if you upgrade your system, which is what I recently did, you have to still make sure everything is exactly the way you like it. So I was happy, though, to have the first day of my new system be an amazing gap, which was what? GPS. So here you have it. Beautiful move down in here. You see where this is? Dropped open fell. Target was $19. It went there. I broke it by two pennies, but this basically went $19 today was the number. I wouldn't be in this anymore today. Could this set up again today? Maybe. If it does, next target's $18.16, $18.80, $18.50. This probably doesn't go past $18.60 today. This has to rally back and hold this area for a late-afternoon trade. But I'm going to go over the morning trade with you. And as you know, I prefer to trade in the morning. Beautiful entry right in here, right out of the gate. You could have taken it. Could have taken it in here again. Got the drop. 8 cents from the target. Got to get out of either the whole thing or half or 75% wide into the morning. Again, I like to trade in the out quick, quick, quick. So this is a great first trade for me to practice on my brand new computer. I'm really excited today. And all the charts seem to be working accurately, which I'm thrilled with. And I can see everything so big. Now I will tell you that I've had another set up. Guess what? It had another set up in here when it base, and base, and base. This is late. But if you didn't get the morning trade, if you missed it, you could have reshorted this in here. You could have done a tight, tight stop in here or you could have given it the cushion. But after this pop up in here and the base thing, it broke down again. And here you see it really a lot better in the 15 minute. Right here under 25, you could have taken it over the 15 minute or you could have taken it in here in the five minute up here at 29, 28. Either way, this had great entries here with good stops. So the first initial entry had like a 20 cent stop. Depending on whether you took it tight in here, it could have had a 15 cent stop or 20, 25 cent stop, depending on whether you put the stop over here, here, here. So usually for me, I'm pretty tight in the morning, okay? Knowing that the stock has to drop right away, which I was this morning. As the day goes on, I'm not as tight with my stops. I usually give them a cushion, like the stop in here in the afternoon play, which I did do a late play in this today because again, I was working on getting my hot keys configured. I did do a late play in this today with a stop at 60. But there's been days where I've done tighter entries in this later. So the tighter entries thought would have been 45. Again, 29 by 45. I ended up doing 29 by 60, but that's still 30 cents. So 30 cents is still a good entry in something like this because it has the potential to drop in break 19. It didn't. I ended up taking this down in here and got out of the target. And I was happy for that because again, to get two trades in this today was really nice. She could have done the first trade out. You could have done the second trade out. You could have done the first trade and taken the second trade. And you could have really maximized your profits in this GPS today if you did it twice. So I was happy to do that. It was a great day to trade for the first time on my new computer. Very excited. Things are finally getting on track here. And if you're interested in more information and would like to learn how to trade with me, how to pick gaps like GPS, email me at melissathestockswush.com. Again, I picked the best gap almost every single solitary day. And if there's nothing to do, I say that in the room as well. I usually only do one stock pick a day. I might do two trades in a night today. I usually do one trade in it, but every once in a while, you have something that sets up a second time. This could set up or between now and two o'clock this afternoon and actually be another short. But I'll tell you if it does, it's gonna break 19 and break it hard. So it has the potential. So good luck, everyone. If you're interested in more information about the Golden Gap class, it's this weekend, May 14th and 15th. Email me at melissathestockswush.com. Thanks, everybody. Have a fantastic, fantastic day.


Let's solve a couple of questions on conservation of energy. For the first one we have two blocks. Block A falls vertically from height H, block B is thrown downward with an initial speed of V from the same height H and the blocks are identical, which means they have the same mass. Which block hits the ground with the greatest speed? And you have to choose one answer out of these four options. As always, hit pause and try this one on your own first. I hope you have given this a shot. Now here we can look at this situation from the lens of conservation of energy. So when we do that we must go back to what was the principle of conservation of energy. If we just look at block A to begin with, so the total mechanical energy that the block A has at height H is equal to the total mechanical energy that the block A will have when it touches the ground. So when we write that this is k, k initial of A plus potential energy initial of A. This is equal to the final mechanical energy of A plus the final potential energy of A. And we can see that when block A reaches the ground there is there will be no potential energy, right? This will be zero. And this block A it is starting from height H but it is starting from rest. There is no velocity. So initial mechanical energy is also zero. So the block A's kinetic energy will just be equal to the initial potential energy of block A. And if you consider this mass as m, this will be mgh, that will be the kinetic energy, the final kinetic energy of block A. Now let's look at block B. Again block B we can consider the system as this block and the earth and within this system there will be just transformation of energy, the energy will be conserved. So the total mechanical energy, the total initial mechanical energy of block B will be equal to the total final mechanical energy for block B. And when we write that, when we write that, that will be k initial of B plus potential energy initial of B. This is equal to the final kinetic energy of B plus the final potential energy of B. And B is also touching the ground so that the final potential energy, this will be zero. Initially, it is moving with a speed. There is some kinetic energy that block B has. And it also has the same amount of potential energy as block A. So final kinetic energy for block B is not just equal to the potential energy for block B. It is also equal to the kinetic energy that the block B has initially. So this is a greater number, this is a greater number, this will be mgh and you are adding something to mgh. So the final kinetic energy will be more for block B. So this is block B because the final kinetic energy is more for block B. Its speed will also be more when it reaches the ground. Okay, let's move on to the next question now. Here we have a cart which is pushed into a short spring. We can see that over here. And then released from rest. Okay, it's starting from zero velocity. The cart follows the pathway shown in the diagram. So it goes like this, then falls down, then goes forward, then goes up. Passes through positions one to four. The spring only touches the cart at the first position. The cart has no height at position three. And the cart reaches the maximum height at the last position. The height of zero, y equals to zero is marked on the diagram. We can see that over here. There is no significant friction within the car or between the car and track. And we need to select the types of energy. There are three types. There is kinetic energy, there is gravitational potential energy and there is elastic potential energy, US, for the cart earth spring system, as the cart is at each of the four positions. All right, why don't we pause the video and try to select the types of energy at these four positions. So when we consider the cart earth spring system, we can think of it as a closed system. And there is no friction anyway. So all the energy transformations, they will happen within this system. They will be gravitational potential energy, spring elastic energy transforming into kinetic or kinetic gravitational transforming into spring. There will be all sorts of transformations. So here the spring, the elastic potential energy of the spring, that will be changed to the kinetic energy of the cart, which could then be changed to gravitational potential energy. So let's look at the first position. In the first position, we have the compressed spring. So there is some elastic potential energy. And this cart, it is also at a certain height. It is from y equals to zero level, it is at a certain height. So there is some gravitational potential energy as well at position one. At position two, the spring is not compressed. So there is no elastic potential energy. But that elastic potential energy is now changed to kinetic energy because now the cart is moving to the left with some velocity. There is some kinetic energy and there is still some gravitational potential energy because even at this point, the cart is at a certain height from y equals to zero. From y equals to zero. All right, now, let's see what happens then. Let's see at position three. So at position three, the cart is still moving to the left. But here there is no gravitational potential energy because it is at y equals to zero. So it's just the kinetic energy of the cart. And again, the spring is not compressed. So there is no elastic potential energy. At position four, v is zero. So there is no kinetic energy. There is no elastic potential energy. All that there is is only the gravitational potential energy. And this gravitational potential energy will really be different from these two gravitational potential energies because they were at this much height, this much height. And this gravitational potential energy is at a much, much greater height. We can call it h dash, much greater height. So we see that energy transformations happen within a closed system. There can be one type of energy which is then changed to another type of energy. But the total energy of the system remains constant. So the total energy of the system at position one is equal to the total energy of the system at position two, which is same as the total energy at position three and the total energy at position four.


unseen. We agree, there are angels and you don't see them, they're in the light. Or it could be your own thoughts that you then interpret as your own thoughts as yourself, but ultimately how would you distinguish between your own thoughts or the whispering of the shaitan, the whispering of the devil, of course. This is how bad ideas enter our minds, ultimately.