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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