On 10 apr. 2014, at 23:55, Fabrice Florin <fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote:

So my next question to the group is what you think can be done to encourage communities like Wikinews to consider adapting their templates to match the Commons more closely? Otherwise, their local images will not be as useful in Media Viewer.

This may not be all that big of a change, and we can document this more specifically, but could use some help from community members to figure out practical solutions for updating these local templates.

In many cases a good well prepared call for action is all that is needed. Explain, what needs to be changed and where. For that last part, we could identify all the categories on wiki's that we think identify license templates, then rank the templates that are 'most used' and give the wiki's trough village pump messaging a list so that they can fix it pre launch. I'm positive that would have a big impact.
The call for action can also be integrated right in the UI post launch, where MMV can say "Unable to show all information for this image. Please report this image to the community".

What is left after that, is probably not worth investing time in, until the time that we have true structured metadata.

Also important, we need a good cross wiki meta tag for fair use. (and figure out what to do with those in MMV).

DJ


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