Hi Platonides and Pete, in any case, we cannot use an image licenced under a Creative Commons licence (which disqualifies almost all pictures from Wiki Loves Monuments), as they all require an attribution (the name or pseudonym of the author/copyright holder) and a URL to the licence text (not the deed!). (Please also note that Susana specifically mentioned she does not need to be attributed to when the WLM logo is used in relation to the contest; however, the licence still requires a working URL to its text, so we are violating its requirements here, too.) I agree that we (the Wikimedia community) should set an example in the usage of freely licenced files, so I am thinking as what we should do here. We have two options: (1) remove the image created by Saibo from the banners (but we should then also remove the WLM logo) or (2) add working links to the images in the banners, and possibly also protect their description pages; this would, however, mean that we'll need to rebuild the templates so the links work for the files as well as for the websites; to do that, we could only use the text as the link. Tomasz _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org

Hi everyone. Is it necessary to provide attribution and license text URL after every use of CC image? We can make a page 'Copyrights' on wikilovesmonuments.org where every thing will be attributed. I mean the banner stuff, website stuff, etc. Anyway, we'd have to link to this page in the banner or what... On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Tomasz W. Kozłowski <odder.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- З павагай, Павел Селіцкас/Paul Selitskas Wizardist @ Wikimedia projects p.selitskas(a)gmail.com, +375257408304 Skype: p.selitskas _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org

For now, I have removed the stack photo from the banners. We are still violating the terms of the licence used by the logo, though.

On 5 September 2012 12:11, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek(a)gmail.com> wrote: She did agree not to mention her name when the logo is used in relation to the contest (and she did that in August 2011), but still -- the licence chosen makes it clear that it is required to place a link to its text whenever the image is used. We cannot do that due to space limitation (and I am sure that a link in the "alt" or "title" attribution wouldn't count), so we are still violating its terms. Susana would probably need to release the logo into the public domain (or we'll need to change the banners so they link to the licence).

Hi everyone. Is it necessary to provide attribution and license text URL after every use of CC image? We can make a page 'Copyrights' on wikilovesmonuments.org where every thing will be attributed. I mean the banner stuff, website stuff, etc. Anyway, we'd have to link to this page in the banner or what...

people... if there is at some point a discussion worth of being called bikeshedding... it must be this one :)