On 7/21/06, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
I agree. We've completely lost sight of the original aims of Wikipedia.
Originally, Wikipedia was supposed to be free content and be an encyclopedia. We're still reasonably close to being an encyclopedia, but the idea of "free content" has been lost in the flood of hundreds of thousands of non-free images. Most users wouldn't know a free license if it bit them in the ass, and the only reason we've got a million GFDL-licensed articles is because of a snippet of text nobody ever bothers to read. I doubt so much as one editor in a hundred actively wants their contributions to be freely licensed -- the other 99 just want their work to be on Wikipedia.
If I wanted my images to be freely licensed I would not be uploading them under the GFDL.