On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:27 AM, <wjhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
At some point, we had a project page where you could
list your services
to do lookups in various sources. I don't really know if that got a
head of steam or died the death of obscurity. I thought I had posted
myself there, but I've never gotten a request for anything. However,
that might solve the problem.
Yes, it must still be there. I know the page you're talking about, but
I've only bumped into it about once in 4 years. And the tendency is to
think that anyone who monitors that page is going to work for the good
of the project.
I personally don't like the idea of requesting or
requiring a
wikipedian to upload images of their source. It sounds an awful lot
like that would violate licensing agreements here and there. And
possibly copyright issues.
It would boil down to 'Fair Use' I suppose. And even then TO PROVE IT
they would have to have the cover of the book rather than just the
page: a page in itself would tell you little. Dya see what I mean?
I could have a scan of a printed page saying "1 million jews died in
the holocaust". I could scan in the cover of a different book. And its
frontespiece.
Again, though, I don't get the impression anyone's that bothered about
fucking WP up.