I think the answer lies in even more information towards our user base. Users of Wikimedia projects, I think, just don't *get* the *free* part for most. It's just a cool thing they do, upload their pictures for Wikipedia...
Delphine
I'd suggest a questionnaire or a wizard-like sequence of questions and optional answers which results in suggestion of which license (if any!) best suits the author's will. I've seen something similar here: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/4/49/Choose_license_popup.png (accessible from here: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Web_Integration_Guide)
For instance: * I declare I am the original author of the image. Y/N ** I allow commercial uses of my work. Y/N ** I allow modifications of my work. Y/N *** I require attribution. Y/N **** I require further distributions being released under the same conditions. Y/N
Good side is that people will make more informed decisions. Bad side... this will reduce the number of uploads...
Regards, Spritia
Vassia Atanassova schrieb:
I think the answer lies in even more information towards our user base. Users of Wikimedia projects, I think, just don't *get* the *free* part for most. It's just a cool thing they do, upload their pictures for Wikipedia...
Delphine
I'd suggest a questionnaire or a wizard-like sequence of questions and optional answers which results in suggestion of which license (if any!) best suits the author's will. I've seen something similar here: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/4/49/Choose_license_popup.png (accessible from here: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Web_Integration_Guide)
For instance:
- I declare I am the original author of the image. Y/N
** I allow commercial uses of my work. Y/N ** I allow modifications of my work. Y/N *** I require attribution. Y/N **** I require further distributions being released under the same conditions. Y/N
Good side is that people will make more informed decisions. Bad side... this will reduce the number of uploads...
Regards, Spritia
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That Idea is great! (Lupo, do you hear me?:) We could add that to the [[Commons:Upload]] form as the poing "I am uploading the Image the first time" (I hope someone programms such a JS-script)
Regards, ABF
Vassia Atanassova wrote:
I'd suggest a questionnaire or a wizard-like sequence of questions and optional answers which results in suggestion of which license (if any!) best suits the author's will. I've seen something similar here: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/4/49/Choose_license_popup.png (accessible from here: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Web_Integration_Guide)
For instance:
- I declare I am the original author of the image. Y/N
Actually our main problem is here. Quite a lot of people do not understand what "original" means or what "author" means. I think we should rephrase this as "I am the photographer", "I scan the image from a book", "I copied the image from ...", etc.
** I allow commercial uses of my work. Y/N ** I allow modifications of my work. Y/N *** I require attribution. Y/N **** I require further distributions being released under the same conditions. Y/N
There is no point to go further if the first question is not properly understood.
Good side is that people will make more informed decisions. Bad side... this will reduce the number of uploads...
Regards, Spritia
Regards,
Yann
Yann Forget wrote:
Vassia Atanassova wrote:
I'd suggest a questionnaire or a wizard-like sequence of questions and optional answers which results in suggestion of which license (if any!) best suits the author's will. I've seen something similar here: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/4/49/Choose_license_popup.png (accessible from here: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Web_Integration_Guide)
For instance:
- I declare I am the original author of the image. Y/N
Actually our main problem is here. Quite a lot of people do not understand what "original" means or what "author" means. I think we should rephrase this as "I am the photographer", "I scan the image from a book", "I copied the image from ...", etc.
You have noted a really important point, Yannf. {{Fully agree}}