somebody had to forward it :P
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kat Walsh kat@wikimedia.org Date: Mar 26, 2007 9:18 PM Subject: [Foundation-l] Foundation Licensing Policy To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
The board has now passed its resolution on the media licensing policy, available now at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy
This policy is intended to reflect the principles in the message posted earlier at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-February/027547.html and to make the guidelines for acceptable media licenses clearer across all projects.
A beginning draft of an FAQ page is on Meta at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_policy_FAQ_draft -- please add your own questions and suggest answers.
Please pass this information on to your project communities!
Cheers, Kat Walsh
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What I'd like to see is a total cleanup of all non-free images of living people that can be replaced with free content, using the "No free image" method as e.g. demonstrated on: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommi_Hovi&oldid=114878341
It would also be nice if free content became a more consistent part of the featured article candidate process; at least a couple recent articles featured on the Main Page had to have their images removed because of excessive use of non-free content.
On 3/27/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
What I'd like to see is a total cleanup of all non-free images of living people that can be replaced with free content, using the "No free image" method as e.g. demonstrated on: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommi_Hovi&oldid=114878341
It would also be nice if free content became a more consistent part of the featured article candidate process; at least a couple recent articles featured on the Main Page had to have their images removed because of excessive use of non-free content. -- Peace & Love, Erik
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Well, within a year or so, for what I gather from the resolution. Most images of living people can be replaced with free images, so they can't be argued and will be removed within a year. Am I getting it right?
On 27/03/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
What I'd like to see is a total cleanup of all non-free images of living people that can be replaced with free content, using the "No free image" method as e.g. demonstrated on: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommi_Hovi&oldid=114878341
I've been doing this whenever I happen across a bio without a picture at all, though the last one I zapped a promo pic on was [[Charlotte Church]]. (Famous current TV host? Get a picture!) As it happened, Heligo and I were on IRC, and Heligo promptly found a CC-by-sa image on Flickr, so it was imageless for a very short time.
Though that's not going to happen in every case - I doubt anyone's going to find a free image of [[J. D. Salinger]] any time soon - but IMO is a principle we could do with being a fair bit harsher on.
It would also be nice if free content became a more consistent part of the featured article candidate process; at least a couple recent articles featured on the Main Page had to have their images removed because of excessive use of non-free content.
FAC does police this pretty strongly and has done for quite some time. I recall they were very reluctant to let [[Chuck Palahniuk]] through until it had a non-promo image (it now has a free image).
- d.
On 3/27/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
What I'd like to see is a total cleanup of all non-free images of living people that can be replaced with free content, using the "No free image" method as e.g. demonstrated on: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommi_Hovi&oldid=114878341
Have you talked to the Devs about this? they may not be too happy about that spreading across projects (I also can't get the equivalent system for buildings to work at the moment which suggests the uselang system has some features I don't know about)
It would also be nice if free content became a more consistent part of the featured article candidate process; at least a couple recent articles featured on the Main Page had to have their images removed because of excessive use of non-free content.
That was unusual. There are various activities in place that should reduce the chance of this happening in future.