User:Mike Linksvayer

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Hi. I use my real name on Wikipedia. I am the subject of Mike Linksvayer, which I would strongly advocate deleting if I were a deletionist (be my guest -- underway as of 2010-12-28!). This made me think a little about notability, leading to the /Article of the Unknown Notable and Notability, deletionism, inclusionism, ∞³.

I have been editing Wikipedia for some time. Sadly my contributions have all been bite-sized, including any articles started (all as stubs, most remaining as such, or merged with more substantial articles).

I also write on my personal blog (see my Wikipedia category for posts about Wikipedia and wikis in general), the Creative Commons Weblog (see below), and about prediction markets at Midas Oracle. I also microblog at Identi.ca. Related to the last (a free-as-in-software-freedom network service), I hope to find more time to blog at Autonomo.us; for now see my personal Open Serivces category.

Possibly of most interest to Wikipedians is my work at Creative Commons, where I am currently "Vice President", which means I manage much of the organization day-to-day, but have not found the right balance between keeping things running and strategic initiatives. Regarding the latter, the most important was the migration of Wikipedia to CC BY-SA and more broadly CC's commitment to meeting the needs of massively collaborative communities such as Wikipedia and free culture where "free" is as in free software. For my perspective on these, please see the following blog posts and presentations:

• Wikipedia + CC BY-SA = Free Culture Win!
• Conjectured impact of Wikipedia license interoperability?
• Wikipedia/CC news: FSF releases FDL 1.3
• Creative Commons Statement of Intent for Attribution-ShareAlike Licenses released
• Approved for Free Cultural Works
• How far behind Free Software is Free Culture?

I also occasionally post about these matters on foundation-l and commons-l.

I am a huge fan of Template:PD-self, a personal inspiration for CC0. In general I am a huge fan of both the public domain and copyleft, and wish more people would fully appreciate the critical role each has to play in the current environment.

I am happy that Wikipedia uses a copyleft license, but release all of my contributions to Wikipedia (and all of my photographs) into the public domain:

	Released into public domain
	I agree to release my text and image contributions, unless otherwise stated, into the public domain. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under public domain terms, please check the multi-licensing guide.