On 7/28/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/28/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/28/06, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/27/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
We shouldn't rely on the completely clueless when determining rules
and
actions with regard to copyright.
We shouldn't? Then why do we give everyone an upload button and encourage them to use it?
+1 insightful
I'm still not sure why that is. Personally, I find doing that is a bad idea.
I can't speak for the rest of you If Wikipedia didn't permit editing by anons I never would have started and If I had to go ask permission to upload I probably never would have uploaded...
Actually, the friction of figuring out the uploading procedure (tagging, commons, policy, etc) resulted in me asking someone else to upload my first image submission ([[Celesta]]). At the time I had many hundreds of edits as an anon, I had an account I had recently opened, and I was already operating another Mediawiki wiki, so I understood uploading technically.. What I wasn't comfortable with was policy.
I am strongly in support of taking action to reduce the amount of copyright outrageous violations that we get... But I think it would be self defeating to implement any policy which discourages real contribution. There must be some solution which simultaneously curtails copyright violation (or at least its impact) and encourages contribution.
Our challenge is to find that solution.