On 4/2/07, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think the problem is that our image table has no
metadata information
about the image, it only knows if we have it or not. We would need at
least another bit: a good/bad flag.
[snip]
InstantantCommons users should check (with a
maintencance script) their
images are still free, and decide upon the reason (eg. delete fair use,
keep superseded) what to do. We should also provide an automatic system
to automatically check the files once a month, with 'proper' defaults
(they will always be able to keep violations, but don't make easy that
configuration).
After giving it some more thought I think it should work something like this:
*To get instant commons access to commons sites must agree to
**Display an instant commons notice (like what the wikimedia wikis do
for commons content) and include the attribution and license data.
**Poll a deletion feed at least once a day
If an image is indicated as deleted, the software will then remove the
commons notices from the image, and the image will look like a local
upload with no mention of commons. This should be a mandatory
requirement for instantcommons access to Wikimedia commons.
The instant commons software should have also feature to automatically
'delete' these images, so that they can be undeleted by the site
operator. This feature should default to on, but site operators can
turn it off at their own peril.
If we do end up implementing something like what Platonides suggested,
a review status for all images (including deleted ones) then the
instant commons auto-deletion setting could depend on the review
status.
More simply, we could add a deletion reason dropdown to the deletion
dialog and just store the deletion cause code in the deletion log.
/* Non-free open content license (nd, nc...) */
/* Duplicated image */
/* Superseded */
/* Quality problems */
/* other */
/* Missing copyright status */
/* Known copyright violation */
/* Privacy or Libel issues */
I am pretty sure that requiring sites to remove the commons notice on
images is something we must do. We need to make it crystal clear that
we can not, do not, and will not take any responsibility for an image
we've deleted.
Nor should we be encouraging anyone to automatically keep images
commons has deleted. Sites should only keep images auto-pulled from
commons then deleted on commons after they have made an informed
decision to do so, not as a result of the software.
I would be inclined to say that we should not permit instantcommons
access to sites which won't use autodeletion for at least the last two
causes, if we do end up with detailed deletion cause codes. But I'm
less sure about that.