Message: 3 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:24:17 +0200 From: "Bryan Tong Minh" bryan.tongminh@gmail.com Subject: [Commons-l] SXC.hu images To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: fd5886130706231324i1fd5ee22w2547cd2cdd57645b@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hello,
May I remind you all that within a week, all images from SXC.hu that are not explicitly licensed under a free license, may be deleted. Please try to contact as many authors as possible to obtain a free license. I have contacted all authors of Featured Pictures, but I cannot do all ~1000 images.
For more information, please see [[Category:Sxc-warning]].
Bryan
Can you guys put some deletion template (or category) in the sxc template so that all those images show up in commonsTicker? This way, us at various other projects will see the list, and be scared to death, but we'd know what is happening better.
-bawolff
I added {{subst:nld}} to {{sxc-warning}}. I hope this will make the images show up in the Ticker.
Oh and in total I have already obtained a free license for 40 images.
Bryan
On 6/24/07, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
Message: 3 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:24:17 +0200 From: "Bryan Tong Minh" bryan.tongminh@gmail.com Subject: [Commons-l] SXC.hu images To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: fd5886130706231324i1fd5ee22w2547cd2cdd57645b@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hello,
May I remind you all that within a week, all images from SXC.hu that are not explicitly licensed under a free license, may be deleted. Please try to contact as many authors as possible to obtain a free license. I have contacted all authors of Featured Pictures, but I cannot do all ~1000 images.
For more information, please see [[Category:Sxc-warning]].
Bryan
Can you guys put some deletion template (or category) in the sxc template so that all those images show up in commonsTicker? This way, us at various other projects will see the list, and be scared to death, but we'd know what is happening better.
-bawolff
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Bryan wrote:
Oh and in total I have already obtained a free license for 40 images.
I saved two, but I only tried two so far, so I guess it's ok :)
Can you maybe modifiy your template a bit? If people were enabled to simply say "Yes, I agree" one could simply forward their mail to permissions@wikimedia.org without further emails ...
Thanks in advance,
Flo
I purposely formulated it this way. We do get enough of the following permissions: Q: "Hello, I want to use your images on Wikipedia. Do you want to license them under the GNU Free Documentation License?" A: "Sure, I'm glad to publish them on Wikipedia"
Not simply asking them to freely license their images has advantages: * The person is made aware of the free content movement. * The person has the choice what license they want. * We are sure that people actually read the email, and know that a free license also means "commercial use" and "derivative work".
Of course, then people generally don't know which license to choose, but from their response it is often recognizable whether they only want attribution, or also copyleft. Then I reply by adding a big thank you message, and the prefilled form from [[Commons:Email templates]] and ask them to send that to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org.
It may be more work, more annoying, but it is much more fair to give people the opportunity to choose, and it is absolutely fair to have them known that they are releasing their images can be use commercially.
Bryan
On 6/25/07, Florian Straub Flominator@gmx.net wrote:
Bryan wrote:
Oh and in total I have already obtained a free license for 40 images.
I saved two, but I only tried two so far, so I guess it's ok :)
Can you maybe modifiy your template a bit? If people were enabled to simply say "Yes, I agree" one could simply forward their mail to permissions@wikimedia.org without further emails ...
Thanks in advance,
Flo
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The list of images that still need permission, sorted by usage:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bryan/sxc-list
On 6/25/07, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
I purposely formulated it this way. We do get enough of the following permissions: Q: "Hello, I want to use your images on Wikipedia. Do you want to license them under the GNU Free Documentation License?" A: "Sure, I'm glad to publish them on Wikipedia"
Not simply asking them to freely license their images has advantages:
- The person is made aware of the free content movement.
- The person has the choice what license they want.
- We are sure that people actually read the email, and know that a
free license also means "commercial use" and "derivative work".
Of course, then people generally don't know which license to choose, but from their response it is often recognizable whether they only want attribution, or also copyleft. Then I reply by adding a big thank you message, and the prefilled form from [[Commons:Email templates]] and ask them to send that to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org.
It may be more work, more annoying, but it is much more fair to give people the opportunity to choose, and it is absolutely fair to have them known that they are releasing their images can be use commercially.
Bryan
On 6/25/07, Florian Straub Flominator@gmx.net wrote:
Bryan wrote:
Oh and in total I have already obtained a free license for 40 images.
I saved two, but I only tried two so far, so I guess it's ok :)
Can you maybe modifiy your template a bit? If people were enabled to simply say "Yes, I agree" one could simply forward their mail to permissions@wikimedia.org without further emails ...
Thanks in advance,
Flo
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Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
On 6/25/07, Florian Straub Flominator@gmx.net wrote:
Can you maybe modifiy your template a bit? If people were enabled to
simply say "Yes, I agree" one could simply forward their mail to permissions@wikimedia.org without further emails ...
I purposely formulated it this way. We do get enough of the following permissions: Q: "Hello, I want to use your images on Wikipedia. Do you want to license them under the GNU Free Documentation License?" A: "Sure, I'm glad to publish them on Wikipedia"
I totally understand your POV. Anyway, I created a version similiar to the one we use at de.wp nld-images at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Flominator/sxc
I hope that's ok,
Flo
Thankyou.
-bawolff
On 6/25/07, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
I added {{subst:nld}} to {{sxc-warning}}. I hope this will make the images show up in the Ticker.
Oh and in total I have already obtained a free license for 40 images.
Bryan
On 6/24/07, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
Message: 3 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:24:17 +0200 From: "Bryan Tong Minh" bryan.tongminh@gmail.com Subject: [Commons-l] SXC.hu images To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: fd5886130706231324i1fd5ee22w2547cd2cdd57645b@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hello,
May I remind you all that within a week, all images from SXC.hu that are not explicitly licensed under a free license, may be deleted. Please try to contact as many authors as possible to obtain a free license. I have contacted all authors of Featured Pictures, but I cannot do all ~1000 images.
For more information, please see [[Category:Sxc-warning]].
Bryan
Can you guys put some deletion template (or category) in the sxc template so that all those images show up in commonsTicker? This way, us at various other projects will see the list, and be scared to death, but we'd know what is happening better.
-bawolff
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