That is why we have Jimmy and his contacts at Flickr. :) Seriously, I am sure Jimbo can ask them and they might allow us to do this. Relation to an en-wiki situation: "Group" Accounts aren't normally allowed, but they can be used if they are approved by the community. We want the same thing here. Casey Brown Cbrown1023 -----Original Message----- From: commons-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:commons-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Brown Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 2:19 AM To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Use Flickr? (was: My Photo Was Reused (God or BadNews?)) On 7/7/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote: It is against a term in the Community Guidelines (http://www.flickr.com/guidelines.gne) that are referenced in the TOS. The relevant section is: | * Don't upload anything that isn't yours. | This includes other people's photographs and/or stuff that you've collected from around the | Internet. Accounts that consist primarily of such collections may be terminated at any time. This is spottily enforced, but a single account publishing large quantities of our content would be a definite violation. -Matt _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

On 7/8/07, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh(a)gmail.com> wrote: See http://www.flickr.com/photos/ayelie/501145309/ . The only problem with your idea, Bryan, is that when people do a Creative Commons search specifically for the purpose of finding free images to use, none of ours will show up; which is kind of against the whole point of using Flickr so people doing CC searches there can find our images as well. Flickr CC search is often the only thing people use to find images for articles/papers/websites/etc. now, for good reasons (think of how handy it is for us looking for images to upload to Commons). -- Ayelie ~Editor at Large