maru dubshinki wrote:
On 7/17/06, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
What's wrong with Commons that we shouldn't upload obviously free En content there? The only problems I've ever had with Commons is the difficulty of getting things which are probably (but not unambiguously) copyvios deleted, because the collective knowledge of US copyright law is pretty low there (or ambivalent when not low, "US shouldn't be our standard" and all that), but never a problem with free content.
FF
Wait- it isn't policy to upload Free images to Commons? I thought it was.
It's recommended but not required. There aren't many reasons left to upload free images to en:, but there's some inertia resisting the change. Plus, in the absence of single signon, it would result in many more redundant logins to merge later, so my personal inclination is not to press the issue until after single signon is up and running.
There have been some criticism of commons policy, but I attribute that to commons being genuinely multinational. For instance, en: and de: WP editors are mostly happily unaware of their differing practices, but on commons they can end up butting heads over how to handle a shared image.
Stan