[Commons-l] Yet another GFDL violation in a big newspaper

Magnus Manske magnusmanske at googlemail.com
Wed Jan 9 09:00:38 UTC 2008


On Jan 8, 2008 6:50 AM, Florian Straub <flominator at gmx.net> wrote:
> Rama Rama wrote on Sunday, December 23, 2007 3:57 PM:
>
> > * put an example of proper credits including a mention of Commons (like
> > "(c)Rama / Wikimedia Commons, Cc-by-sa) below all images ?
>
> That sounds like a thing we could do anyway. Maybe we could add something
> additional to the link "Reuse this image" in {{information}} to the license
> tags. I'm thinking about a text that you can copy to your website/newspaper
> in order to get a valid credit line in dependence of the license. Maybe a
> box saying: "You can use this picture, if you put the following line under
> it".
>
> We could even use some JS magic in order to insert the author mentioned in
> {{information}}
>
> What do you think?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wei%C3%9Fenbrunn_im_Landkreis_Kronach.png?withJS=MediaWiki:ChooseResolution.js

Magnus



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