On 8/11/06, jkelly@fas.harvard.edu jkelly@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
I think that there is plenty of room for contributors to wikimedia projects who aren't interested in the potential for reuse of those projects, but I am wondering where en is at if admins are actively dissuading contributors who value it.
Jkelly
At a place which is somewhat better than where it used to be. I've been blocked more than once for repeatedly removing obviously non-free images from encyclopedia articles and from the main page. My blocks of course weren't explicitly over what I did but how I did it, similarly to your RFC. But the copyright page used to say that "Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify the text of all Wikipedia materials under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License", and there were quite a few admins who claimed this meant that images need not be under any license at all, so long as it was legal for Wikipedia to use the image. I guess I was acting with far too little patience, as many of Wikipedia's policies over non-free images have gotten a lot better on these points.
Anyway, there are some admins that still don't understand what it means to be a free encyclopedia. But most of them now get it, and even accept it. That said, patience is still required when creating new policies, unless you don't mind getting involved with a number of heated disputes, and getting asked to leave the project.
Anthony