On 23 July 2010 18:47, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
First of all, the upload form should not be a venue
for educating people on
copyright and free licenses. As painful as it may be, we need to abandon our
maternal instincts and assume that the uploader knows what they're doing and
give them the option of learning more if they want to, not spamming the
interface with endless explanations and caveats.
Yes. Like so many things on Wikimedia, it's at the point of
overwhelming instruction creep attempting to legislate clue.
- d.