On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Paul Houle <paul(a)ontology2.com> wrote:
Over the weekend I had some problem with
causality. I found this
page on Commons,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pine_Grove_Springs_Hotel,_Spofford_L…
which claims to have gotten an image from my web site,
http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/picture/1849742/Pine_Grove_Springs_Hotel_Spof…
which in turn claims to have gotten the image from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pine_Grove_Springs_Hotel,_Spofford_Lake,_…
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 by
an 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.
--
André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com
