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Sam Pablo Kuper

17 Feb 2016 17 Feb '16

3:19 a.m.

Is it possible for a user to search Wikimedia Commons by license and keyword? For example, suppose I want to find images of cats, that are licensed under CC-BY (but not CC-BY-SA or CC-0, etc). How should I go about this? Thanks in advance for your help! Sam Pablo Kuper

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Fæ

17 Feb 17 Feb

12:41 p.m.

There are a lot of different license templates that can mark a file as CC-BY, refer to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_Creative_Commons_licenses If you were looking for the generic {{CC-BY-4.0}} you can use the category < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CC-BY-4.0> So using the category that 'cats' redirects to, and putting this into catscan gives: http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan3/quick_intersection.php?lang=commons&p… To get more, you can swap in CC-BY-3.0 etc. Fae On 17 February 2016 at 03:19, Sam Pablo Kuper <sampablokuper(a)riseup.net> wrote:

Is it possible for a user to search Wikimedia Commons by license and keyword? For example, suppose I want to find images of cats, that are licensed under CC-BY (but not CC-BY-SA or CC-0, etc). How should I go about this? Thanks in advance for your help! Sam Pablo Kuper _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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Jane Darnell

1:54 p.m.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:commons.wikimedia.org+cats+cc-0 On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:

There are a lot of different license templates that can mark a file as CC-BY, refer to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_Creative_Commons_licenses If you were looking for the generic {{CC-BY-4.0}} you can use the category <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CC-BY-4.0> So using the category that 'cats' redirects to, and putting this into catscan gives: http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan3/quick_intersection.php?lang=commons&p… To get more, you can swap in CC-BY-3.0 etc. Fae On 17 February 2016 at 03:19, Sam Pablo Kuper <sampablokuper(a)riseup.net> wrote:

Is it possible for a user to search Wikimedia Commons by license and keyword? For example, suppose I want to find images of cats, that are licensed under CC-BY (but not CC-BY-SA or CC-0, etc). How should I go about this? Thanks in advance for your help! Sam Pablo Kuper _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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Federico Leva (Nemo)

2:06 p.m.

Sam Pablo Kuper, 17/02/2016 04:19:

For example, suppose I want to find images of cats, that are licensed under CC-BY (but not CC-BY-SA or CC-0, etc). How should I go about this?

Usually I use categories. When I search a specific copyright status it's usually PD (when I don't have space for attribution): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/cat_incategory:%22CC-PD-M… External search engines are useless for tiny distinctions like these, for instance Google only tracks NC/ND clauses. Nemo

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Sam Pablo Kuper

18 Feb 18 Feb

4:41 a.m.

Sam Pablo Kuper, 17/02/2016 04:19: > For example, suppose I want to find images of cats, that are licensed > under CC-BY (but not CC-BY-SA or CC-0, etc). How should I go about this?

Thanks for the various replies. I had hoped that there might be a "license:" filter in MediaWiki (or CirrusSearch, etc) that worked semantically rather than just using string matching (i.e. syntactically). If anyone does know of such a thing - perhaps via Wikidata? - please let me know. Thanks again! Now, some comments on the suggestions :) On 17/02/16 14:06, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:

Usually I use categories. When I search a specific copyright status it's usually PD (when I don't have space for attribution):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/cat_incategory:%22CC-PD-M… Thanks for this. It's a good reminder to me to learn the CirrusSearch filters. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#Filters_.28intitle:.2C_inc… On 17/02/16 12:41, Fæ wrote:

There are a lot of different license templates that can mark a file as CC-BY, refer to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_Creative_Commons_licenses If you were looking for the generic {{CC-BY-4.0}} you can use the category < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CC-BY-4.0> So using the category that 'cats' redirects to, and putting this into catscan gives: http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan3/quick_intersection.php?lang=commons&p… To get more, you can swap in CC-BY-3.0 etc.

Nice. I wasn't aware of the "Quick Intersection" tool :) On 17/02/16 13:54, Jane Darnell wrote:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:commons.wikimedia.org+cats+cc-0

Google works irritatingly well for this, I must admit, and allows searches like: https://www.google.co.uk/search?safe=off&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=site%3… Thanks, all!

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