Hi Anatoliy,
I think there is little we can do about this, aside from
informing you and being alert about the upload of non-free media on Commons,
which is nothing new.
Assuming that your representation of events is correct, it
appears to me that the way "Fair use" has been implemented on uk.wikipedia may
be in violation of a resolution of the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation[1]. I
would advise you to review the document I linked below and analyse if the
current policy on uk.wikipedia is in occordance with the
Resolution.
If you require specific advice, this mailing list could be
a platform for discussion. I have no opinion on the internal matters of
uk.wikipedia; as long as the community wanders within the boundaries that have
been set by the Foundation, I think the community should find solutions for
their own problems, or, if involved parties agree, request
mediation.
Personally I am against Fair use in any project of
Wikimedia, just so you and others know what would be my POV.
Cheers! Siebrand
I propose forbid uploading images from Ukrainian Wikipedia, because
uk-wp admins abuse copyright. Some of them uploads non-free images with free
licence. Other ones use fairuses in templates and userpages. And you may upload
ANY image and put license {{Fairuse in}} and image will stay on Wikipedia during
months.
Last week some sysop (Turzh) uploaded many images with license
CC-BY-SA from the site
sobory.ru , but author
allows only non-commercial usage (see OTRS ticket#
2008070810020169).
I ask that sysop to delete these images because such permission is unappropriate
but he continued upload images. Today I ask him again to delete it (because
images with free license maybe uploaded by any user to Commons; and I as
Commons' sysop care about purity of project), but he said that he not uploaded
it in Commons, it is uk-wiki, and he does what he want. Then I put templates
{{db}} to some images but he blocked me for 24 hours.
That's why I
suggest to forbid uploading images from uk-wiki (firstly via CommonsHelper and
then with another ways) without admin review.
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Anatoliy Honcharov
(Анатолій Гончаров)
mailto:
Ahonc.ua@gmail.com