Stan Shebs wrote:
Anthere wrote:
Stan Shebs wrote:
As a board member, isn't it within your power to pay a developer to come up with an automated way to transfer images from language WPs to commons? It's been wanted for some time, and would solve a lot of our image management problems. Commons has evolved much better ways to deal with large masses of images.
Nod. But frankly, it would not be considered as the most urgent thing a developer would have to take care of. Issues such as single login, or very simply, having the site run smoothly and with a decent efficiency (images loading time...) would be the priority.
Beyond this, we always fall back on the same issue, paying developers means more money. More money means having more fundraiser or fundraiser lasting longer, or people willing to take the time to ask for more grants (not so many people interested in doing that...) or simply looking for more sponsors, or putting ads ;-)
At one point, I was keen to do some wikimedia development, so as to help with this sort of thing, and set up a test wiki, but it's more fun to upload images than to hack on PHP...
correct. This said... did you hear about the major uproar on the german wikipedia due to massive copyright infringment ? It is now in the press. And the german wikipedia, I believe, choose to entirely forbid all fair use images at least a year ago.
I've not heard a thing about this. Do you have a link?
Stan
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