On 7/17/06, Justin Cormack <justin(a)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.