I always thought it was improper that the exports contain our userpages. A simple script could replace all of these with a hardlink to the proper wikipedia page, with a disclaimer.
SV
--- Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
I also think it's important that people KNOW that
the User namespace
could easily be re-used as well as any other, so
that the whole
"you're an editor on the Nazi encyclopedia"
scenario doesn't seem so
invasive and awful when it inevitably happens, and
people realize that
if they post pictures of themselves and their dog
on a site which
purports to be free for reuse, it might just get
reused! Unless we
specifically say that User pages are licensed in
some other way --
which I'm not necessarily opposed to, because
they're not really meant
to be part of the "encyclopedia" -- I don't think
we should allow
people to have the impression that they are.
It is still perfectly reasonable for a person to naturally want to show an image of themselves or other Wikipedias at say a WikiMeet without having to release those images under a license that would allow for extensive reuse. Out of respect to users, who contribute without pay and just for the fun of it, we have always been a bit lax on what users do with their user pages.
Again, the *reason* the image use copyright policy forbids NC and special use images is that having those images in articles makes reuse needlessly difficult (even though such use is perfectly fine under GNU FDL). So given that, and the fact that user pages are not part of the encyclopedia, I think we should allow some image licenses for images on user pages and even the Wikipedia namespace that we would not allow in the article namespace.
The only issue as I see it, is that we dont give reusers the option to not download user pages and other Wikipedia-specific pages. But that is a current technical problem; not a valid reason to forever forbid NC and special use images in the user or Wikipedia namespaces.
Forbidding such images for no practical reason smacks of fascism to me. So once the technical issue I mentioned is fixed, I see no valid reason for us to not be more permissive on image licensing in the user namespace (within the limits of WP:NOT a personal web page provider)
-- mav
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