[WikiEN-l] Image statistics -- 374 000+ "fair use" images

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On 7/17/06, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> It's recommended but not required. There aren't many reasons left
> to upload free images to en:, but there's some inertia resisting
> the change. Plus, in the absence of single signon, it would result
> in many more redundant logins to merge later, so my personal
> inclination is not to press the issue until after single signon is
> up and running.

There's so much benefit to uploading them to Commons (improving the
status of Commons as a free repository, getting images used across all
of the Wikipedias, etc.), it seems almost criminal to not upload them
there.

> There have been some criticism of commons policy, but I attribute
> that to commons being genuinely multinational. For instance,
> en: and de: WP editors are mostly happily unaware of their differing
> practices, but on commons they can end up butting heads over how
> to handle a shared image.

That's my take on it too. Something which seems quite natural to a
bunch of US editors, steeped in US copyright notions and law, can
often be quite complicated when introduced into a more international
forum, without even taking into account language differences. But it
generally works out, eventually.

FF