On 11/09/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/09/2007, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/09/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I don't really see a way around that except banning watermarks and/or the uploaders getting a clue.
We have banned them for self uploads. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#User-created_images 4th para.
And on Commons?
Visible tags or watermarks inside images are strongly discouraged at Wikimedia Commons. So information like "Mr. Foobar, May 2005, CC-BY-SA" shall not be written directly in the image but in EXIF fields, which is technically even superior.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Manipulating_meta_data#Purpose_for...