2009/7/21 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk>uk>:
2009/7/21 Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>om>:
> Yes, you are right. So how did we get to OTRS
instead of directing
> people to the Upload button? I'm confused now. I'm sure there was a
> reason for using OTRS instead of telling people to Upload. I think the
I believe one of the main issues is that a lot of
people are more
comfortable with emailing in a photograph, and us doing the
administrative tasks, than with the whole hassle of creating an
account, uploading it, figuring out the commons/wikipedia divide,
learning the syntax to put it in an article...
Yeah. Some people are happy to contribute things but aren't terribly
interested in getting involved in the community, etc.
e.g. a friend got a picture of a [[hoopoe]] in the middle of its
sunbasking behaviour. I asked for the pic for Wikimedia, worked out
the license and the credit line, uploaded them and added the pic to
the article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoopoe#Behaviour
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sbuchner_20090712_hoopoe4.jpg
(There's a suggested credit line for the CC by-sa, though I did point
out that sites reusing the image would often just print her name and
technically be in compliance - but asking nicely for the links doesn't
hurt and will often get them.)
- d.