Comments on: Wikipedia userboxes http://www.squarefree.com/2007/06/04/wikipedia-userboxes/ Jesse Ruderman on Firefox, security, and more Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:47:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lloyd Budd http://www.squarefree.com/2007/06/04/wikipedia-userboxes/comment-page-1/#comment-3740 Lloyd Budd Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:43:20 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/2007/06/04/wikipedia-userboxes/#comment-3740 Userboxes? I had seen them before, but not thought much about them. Fun stuff! Yeah, that is too bad about the Firefox userbox. "This user goes to eleven." makes me think "This user has power level over 9000". Userboxes? I had seen them before, but not thought much about them. Fun stuff!

Yeah, that is too bad about the Firefox userbox.

“This user goes to eleven.” makes me think “This user has power level over 9000″.

]]> By: Joe Grossberg http://www.squarefree.com/2007/06/04/wikipedia-userboxes/comment-page-1/#comment-3739 Joe Grossberg Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:39:00 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/2007/06/04/wikipedia-userboxes/#comment-3739 Modified version of your idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Josephgrossberg/Userboxes/InSovietRussia Modified version of your idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Josephgrossberg/Userboxes/InSovietRussia

]]> By: Jesse Ruderman http://www.squarefree.com/2007/06/04/wikipedia-userboxes/comment-page-1/#comment-3738 Jesse Ruderman Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:23:41 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/2007/06/04/wikipedia-userboxes/#comment-3738 http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html is pretty clear that it's ok to use the Firefox logo as part of promoting Firefox or saying that you use Firefox. Maybe Wikipedia is just trying to keep their rules simple, and that makes sense given that userboxes aren't a critical part of the site. http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html is pretty clear that it’s ok to use the Firefox logo as part of promoting Firefox or saying that you use Firefox. Maybe Wikipedia is just trying to keep their rules simple, and that makes sense given that userboxes aren’t a critical part of the site.

]]> By: Kadin http://www.squarefree.com/2007/06/04/wikipedia-userboxes/comment-page-1/#comment-3737 Kadin Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:32:23 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/2007/06/04/wikipedia-userboxes/#comment-3737 The reason you can't use non-free images on user pages is because fair use doesn't allow for it. Criticial commentary and identification are legal, but use on personal pages would by copyright violation. The reason you can’t use non-free images on user pages is because fair use doesn’t allow for it. Criticial commentary and identification are legal, but use on personal pages would by copyright violation.

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