Well, there's no really need to cite Wikipedia, because the license said that the author (the person who took the picture) and the license should be mentionned. To cite "Wikipedia" is welcome but not necessary.
I think that by writing "Photo: Wikipedia" they have good intentions, they just don't know how to proceed correctly. So it will be good just to send them a friendly e-mail which explains them how to cite correctly the source (e.g.: Photo by *name of the photographer*, CC-BY-SA-3.0)
Guérin Nicolas
2009/10/22 Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com
The "EU Observer" web newspaper seems to be a regular re-user of Wikimedia images. From their current edition of stories:
http://euobserver.com/9/28853 http://euobserver.com/7/28767 http://euobserver.com/7/28830 http://euobserver.com/7/28668 http://euobserver.com/13/28677 http://euobserver.com/22/28824
All marked (credit:Wikipedia), no link or mention of license.
----- "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
From: "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 13 October, 2009 15:14:02 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland,
Portugal
Subject: [Commons-l] Wikimedia as stock photo source
Is anyone keeping track of these?
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Police-Man-didnt-get-gun-used-pliers-in...
Not perfect - credit but no licence - but far better than nothing!
This is interesting to me because it's just a plain stock photo being used as illustration for design purposes.
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