That they follow conditions of licence. It's up to
them how they achieve
that isn't it?
Christiaan
On 25 Mar 2005, at 5:57 pm, Anthere wrote:
> Nod.
> This is probably the key of the problem.
> Well, the fact the description is missing from all pictures used by
> wikicommons (we do not really respect our own licence...) has already
> been raised many times unfortunately.
>
> It is certainly an issue to fix in the future.
>
> Meanwhile, what can we propose to Answers ?
>
> Ant
>
> Christiaan Briggs a écrit:
>
>> I think I have an idea of where this problem stems from; when you
>> click on an image in Wikipedia which was originally uploaded to
>> Wikimedia Commons the description (including who the author is) is
>> not included on the Wikipedia page for that image (only a link its
>> page on Wikimedia Commons is included). I would say
Answers.com is
>> simply pulling down the content from Wikipedia (and ignoring the link
>> to the Commons page).
>> At the moment Wikipedia image pages only include a link to the
>> corresponding Wikimedia Commons page. I'm not sure what the technical
>> issues are here but it seems to me when a user clicks on an image in
>> Wikipedia the description of the image should be on that page. A
>> couple of ways of achieving this might be to link directly to the
>> image on Wikimedia Commons or to somehow import the text from
>> Wikimedia Commons onto the Wikipedia page. I'm sure there are
>> probably problems associated with these, otherwise I imagine we'd be
>> doing it already.
>> Christiaan
>> Anthere wrote:
>>
>>> I think you are correct that there is possibly a problem as no where
>>> is the author of the picture mentionned, nor a link available.
>>>
>>> We should mention this to Jimbo
>>>
>>> Ant
>>>
>>> MacGyverMagic/Mgm a écrit:
>>>
>>>>> Is anyone else surprised that
Answers.com doesn't seem to follow
GFDL
>>>>> or CCbySA conditions with regard to images used from Wikipedia,
>>>>> such as
>>>>> crediting authors:
>>>>>
>>>>>
http://www.answers.com/library/Wikipedia+Images
>>>>>
>>>>> Or am I misunderstanding the process?
>>>>>
>>>>> Christiaan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, I could be misunderstanding the process myself, but aren't
they
>>>> following GFDL by telling us it's a Wikipedia article to start with?
>>>> Mgm
>>>
>>>
>
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