For more experienced users not selecting a licence is actually easier if you know exactly which template to use, because you can prepare the complete description page in the upload form, without having to move the category to the bottom or correcting a too generic tag afterwards. A show preview button whould be nice though.
Although I agree with Brianna/pfctdayelise that people should look into licenses before uploading, I think having a "I don't know option" is preferable over people just randomly picking a license. When just 1 in 100 people is honest so be it, but that at least makes it obvious that more attention is needed. Too many people just slap on a license without thinking or take things too easily for granted, see the World Cup images from Flickr which are obviously copyvio's.
~~~~ (hmppf, doesn't work ;-)). NielsF
From: "Brianna Laugher" brianna.laugher@gmail.com Reply-To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List commons-l@wikimedia.org To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" commons-l@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Commons-l] intelligence in flagging Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:58:27 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from mail.wikimedia.org ([207.142.131.221]) by bay0-mc11-f9.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2444); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:58:30 -0700 Received: from [10.0.0.9] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by mail.wikimedia.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073C218F9AF;Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:58:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172])by mail.wikimedia.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAC8F1856CFfor commons-l@wikimedia.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:58:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so53738ugffor commons-l@wikimedia.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.136.7 with SMTP id j7mr43710hud;Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.150.13 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:58:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Message-Info: LsUYwwHHNt3V+RpxXTk3VdTi4sVGjal2P2ofMt1EeiM= X-Original-To: commons-l@wikimedia.org Delivered-To: commons-l@wikimedia.org References: e900bg$7p3$1@sea.gmane.org 005b01c6a50a$b4b19230$0c00000a@SMLT171cd4dd90607111049h3b28b5ercabf75fd7cce80dc@mail.gmail.com54f6f2050607111105i3bc2919eld6f1b80bd101e99f@mail.gmail.com X-BeenThere: commons-l@wikimedia.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list List-Id: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l.wikimedia.org> List-Unsubscribe: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l,mailto:commons-l-request@wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/commons-l List-Post: mailto:commons-l@wikimedia.org List-Help: mailto:commons-l-request@wikimedia.org?subject=help List-Subscribe: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l,mailto:commons-l-request@wikimedia.org?subject=subscribe Errors-To: commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org Return-Path: commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Jul 2006 23:58:31.0346 (UTC) FILETIME=[E961B920:01C6A545]
On 12/07/06, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
It would be nice to still allow people to select "I don't know what the license is" so that those with more experience can help (particularly
easy
for us in the case of old photographs).
1 in maybe 100 would be such nice cases, the other 99 would be explaining that random stuff off the web is copyrighted. I would prefer people find out the license BEFORE uploading. It would save a lot of work. We have a [[commons:Help desk|]] for this purpose.
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