On 11/03/07, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2) Most images
will have an intermediate preview (probably in a pop-up
lightbox). From here we can provide a link to *both* the Commons and
Wikipedia pages for an image. What do you think?
I don't think this is a good idea. I assume he said it thinking on
"articles linking here", a link to CheckUsage would be ok, but to
wikipedia...
1-Which wikipedia?
Presumably English, or any that were indexed. Currently not all WMF
material is indexed. And the interface is in English.
2-Why wikipedia and not Wiktionary or Wikibooks?
Because Wikipedia has a much higher profile and beyond that a much
higher USAGE of images than either of these projects. He is not trying
to strategically promote Wikipedia - he's providing links to where the
image was used.
b) The image is fair use. No good for a copyleft
search engine.
They seem to have been smart enough to exclude fair use images. Search
for yourself and see if you can find any.
That if you upload to commons (not local upload), your
image will also
be on the image search engine, can also encourage some people for the
free licenses instead of the -nc, etc.
Yes, although it also indexes the NC and ND Creative Commons licenses
that some other sites use. :(
A suggestion for them: What about making available a
search from
image-hash (eg md5, sha1...) to allow a backwards search? (Where did
this free imjage came from?)
that's way useful for us, but I don't know it would be so useful for J
Random ImageSearchEngineUser. [why doesn't google images have such a
feature?]
cheers
Brianna