[WikiEN-l] Re: copyright and arbcom issues

[Stan Shebs]

Anthere wrote:

> Stan Shebs wrote:
>
>>
>> As a board member, isn't it within your power to pay a developer to
>> come up with an automated way to transfer images from language WPs
>> to commons? It's been wanted for some time, and would solve a lot of
>> our image management problems. Commons has evolved much better ways
>> to deal with large masses of images.
>
>
> Nod. But frankly, it would not be considered as the most urgent thing 
> a developer would have to take care of. Issues such as single login, 
> or very simply, having the site run smoothly and with a decent 
> efficiency (images loading time...) would be the priority.
>
> Beyond this, we always fall back on the same issue, paying developers 
> means more money. More money means having more fundraiser or 
> fundraiser lasting longer, or people willing to take the time to ask 
> for more grants (not so many people interested in doing that...) or 
> simply looking for more sponsors, or putting ads ;-)

At one point, I was keen to do some wikimedia development, so as to help
with this sort of thing, and set up a test wiki, but it's more fun to upload
images than to hack on PHP...

>
> correct. This said... did you hear about the major uproar on the 
> german wikipedia due to massive copyright infringment ? It is now in 
> the press. And the german wikipedia, I believe, choose to entirely 
> forbid all fair use images at least a year ago.

I've not heard a thing about this. Do you have a link?

Stan