On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Paul Houle paul@ontology2.com wrote:
Over the weekend I had some problem with causality. I found thispage on Commons,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pine_Grove_Springs_Hotel,_Spofford_La...
which claims to have gotten an image from my web site,http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/picture/1849742/Pine_Grove_Springs_Hotel_Spoff...
which in turn claims to have gotten the image fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pine_Grove_Springs_Hotel,_Spofford_Lake,_C...
which also claims to have gotten the picture from Ookaboo.Obviously this doesn't make sense. Although this image is old enough that we're not going to have anyone getting angry about attribution, but our users deserve to have sensible provenance information for this image.
Ookaboo almost certainly got this image from Wikimedia Commons byan automated process. It seems that somehow, Wikimedia Commons re-imported the image from Ookaboo.
No, that's not the case. The picture was uploaded on commons from en:, where in turn it was uploaded by the specified user, who claims without reason to doubt it that it was scanned by him from an out-of-copyright source. Only several weeks _after_ it was copied from en: to commons the reference to ookaboo.com was added.