On 9 April 2012 18:24, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
I'd go for an automatic bot / server process messaging them on flickr thanking for posting the photo with a free license and how they can be used now on Wikimedia Commons. That won't obviously avoid blatnant flickrwashing, but if the license was indeed wrongly set, any issues should arise soon enough, when it isn't so bad to "lose" the images.
This is an excellent suggestion - it solves several issues at once.
As well as people who've set the "wrong" license ( = they probably didn't think it through) being able to fix it, it means that we do the nice and polite thing of actually telling people that their work was appreciated, that we're wanting to use it, etc. People like being told their images are being reused - I know that when someone left me a note on flickr to say that they'd copied my pictures to Commons, I was quite excited even when I had a vague feeling I should have uploaded them myself :-)
And, of course, it promotes Commons to photographers...