[Commons-l] Nice one from Durova

[geni]

On 11/09/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/09/2007, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/09/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I don't really see a way around that except banning watermarks and/or
> > > the uploaders getting a clue.
>
> > We have banned them for self uploads. See:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#User-created_images
> > 4th para.
>
>
> And on Commons?

Visible tags or watermarks inside images are strongly discouraged at
Wikimedia Commons. So information like "Mr. Foobar, May 2005,
CC-BY-SA" shall not be written directly in the image but in EXIF
fields, which is technically even superior.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Manipulating_meta_data#Purpose_for_using_EXIF_at_Commons

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geni