..One last question, is it safe to assume _any_ picture under Wiki is ok to use in our Arabic articles?
Regards,
Ahmad Al-rasheedan wrote:
..One last question, is it safe to assume _any_ picture under Wiki is ok to use in our Arabic articles?
No, not even all pictures in the english wikipedia. They are busy at the moment with tagging every image if it can be used freely. If you see public domain or GFDL, go for it, otherwise don't (There was a change in policy in the last weeks which discouraged so called "fair use" images).
greetings, elian
It might be a god idea to make a policy on image use at this early stage before people upload too many. The English Wikipedia are currently moving towards allowing fair use images as long as those have gone through the process described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fair_use.
The German Wikipedia don't allow them at all I believe.
Are there any opinions on which route to take for the Arabic Wikipedia?
Angela.
--- Elisabeth Bauer elian@djini.de wrote: > Ahmad Al-rasheedan wrote:
..One last question, is it safe to assume _any_
picture under
Wiki is ok to use in our Arabic articles?
No, not even all pictures in the english wikipedia. They are busy at the moment with tagging every image if it can be used freely. If you see public domain or GFDL, go for it, otherwise don't (There was a change in policy in the last weeks which discouraged so called "fair use" images).
greetings, elian
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On Wednesday 25 February 2004 02:08, Angela wrote:
Are there any opinions on which route to take for the Arabic Wikipedia?
I don't mind the fair use policy. I know the "مسجد" article looks much better than "رشاد خليفة" article due to added pictures in former. My fingers are itchy wanting to add pictures to what I wrote and pictures in wiki are not necessarily free makes it even harder.
Regards,