On 7/17/06, Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
On 17 Jul 2006, at 21:37, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Sadily, although common's rules are more restrictive .. their overall enforcement is far more lax (at least past the initial upload). The problems with cross language cross project cooperation result in a lot of difficulty. :(
Well I feel this is partly because single signon has been discussed for years now with as far as I can see no progress at all. And en has kept its abysmal image situation going well with no attempt to fix it. People like geni keep saying that once (years back) commons had its front page vandalised. Well en has had copyvio images in its featured articles, and its "fair use" images are a joke.
If all free images in en were on commons, we would all police it more, and with single signon it would be easier, and things could be transwikied.
Can we set a timetable for single signon?
I don't know how single signon will address any copyright related problems. That said, I expect that we'll have single sign on real soon now (tm).
As far as en's image problems... if you think nothing is being done to fix it, you're simply out of touch. Compared to a year ago, our image copyright policy is substantially more clear, more strict, and more enforced. We have made it far more likely to catch confused uploads, and we have been fixing a LOT of old problems. There are some occasional regressions, but we've mostly gotten past the times where wikipedians would randomly assign tags in order to rescue unlicensed images. Folks like Carnildo have done and are doing a tremendous amount of work. We still have a long way to go... but to claim that there is no improvement is ridiculous.