On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
If I read correctly, Commons was excluded from the effect of the change (or at least the comments in the vote on Meta seemed to indicate that). If so, since most new free-licensed images (as opposed to fair-use ones) should go to Commons anyway, could we just change the instructions for new-user uploads to point them to the Commons account-creation and upload pages?
Better yet, wait a couple of months and they can sign up on Wikipedia and get an account on Commons automatically, when unification is automatic at account creation. Assuming that freely-licensed images should always be uploaded to Commons anyway, which isn't a terrible assumption, this restriction only reduces people's ability to upload fair-use images (and, of course, copyvios). The instructions just need to be updated, it seems to me.