Another suggestion would be to run all new uploads through Tineye straight away; and if they have significant or suspicious hits put it up for review.

Tom

On 9 April 2012 18:40, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:

On 9 April 2012 18:24, Platonides <Platonides@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd go for an automatic bot / server process messaging them on flickr
> thanking for posting the photo with a free license and how they can be
> used now on Wikimedia Commons.
> That won't obviously avoid blatnant flickrwashing, but if the license
> was indeed wrongly set, any issues should arise soon enough, when it
> isn't so bad to "lose" the images.

This is an excellent suggestion - it solves several issues at once.

As well as people who've set the "wrong" license ( = they probably
didn't think it through) being able to fix it, it means that we do the
nice and polite thing of actually telling people that their work was
appreciated, that we're wanting to use it, etc. People like being told
their images are being reused - I know that when someone left me a
note on flickr to say that they'd copied my pictures to Commons, I was
quite excited even when I had a vague feeling I should have uploaded
them myself :-)

And, of course, it promotes Commons to photographers...

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