On 7/15/07, Rama Rama ramaneko@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to ask
- Whether anyone has experience in talking family members or friends into
publishing such images 2) Whether someone has experience in contacting unknown people, in the perspective of crafting an example message which would be concise, clear and reasonably extensive on the matter of Free licences.
enwiki has [[Wikipedia:Example requests for permission]]. I'm not sure of something exists on commons also. People also ask questions somewhat often about the licensing issues regarding uploading images taken by their grandparents or other older family members. We explain the issues and as far as I know it seems to go pretty well. I don't know what the actual conversation is of course, and how informed the grandparents are, but the uploader/grandchild seems to understand most of the time.
I've contacted people I don't know, and it works well, but most of the people I contact are usually at least somewhat aware of free licensing and wikipedia. Contacting people for permission is pretty common I think.
Judson [[:en:User:Cohesion]]