[WikiEN-l] NYT: Wikipedia May Be a Font of Facts, but It's a Desert for Photos

[Steve Summit]

Durova wrote:
> The default action that people take when they discover Wikipedia would
> publish their photos is to offer permission.  When we try to answer 'that
> doesn't work, you need to go to OTRS and...' nine times out of ten their
> eyes glaze over and they wander away.  They simply don't comprehend.  We
> need to stop being defeatist and get serious about commuincating on a
> broader scale that yes, these things are possible.

Or we could do the unthinkable and change our policies to better
mesh with the way nine out of ten people actually think.

(Or, yeah, I know, pigs could fly.  But still.)