On 6/10/07, Artur FijaĆkowski <wiki.warx(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2007/6/10, Robin Schwab
<contact(a)robinschwab.ch>ch>:
Well that's to sell high res pics. For
Wikipedia articles 300x450px do
just fine.
No! As far as we want to be repository of images size is very
important! People want to use Commons as source of images for many
different applications and in most of them high resolution is better
then low (or even low is unusable).
Welcome to the Wikimedia Commons
a database of 1,544,303 freely reusable media files
to which anyone can contribute
As long as we do not want to change it to:
Welcome to the Wikipedia Commons
a database of 1,544,303 freely reusable media files
which are usable only on screen display
But it's not
Welcome to the Wikimedia Commons
a database of 1,544,303 freely reusable media files
which have to be hi-res (>4Megapixel)
either
we SHOULD demand high-res images.
We should WANT hi-res images. We should PREFER hi-res images.
DEMANDING them in a volunteer project is, well... problematic. Let's
settle for taking web-grade stuff as well, if that's what's offered.
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