Timwi -
That is indeed pretty egregious. I use that dialog all the time, but usually upload my own images and so didn't really attend to whether the other options are complete.
I agree that this should be fixed, and filed a bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20648
(I thought there would be one already but couldn't find it; please dup it if necessary)
SJ
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Hi.
A friend of mine just tried to upload an image to Wikipedia which was given to him by another friend.
Unfortunately the Upload page only provides the options:
- made by someone else for use on Wikipedia only
- made by someone else for non-commercial use only
and both of these options lead to a speedy-deletion warning. The most OBVIOUS options are missing:
- made by someone else and licenced as (whatever free/open licence)
- made by someone else and placed in the public domain
Because of this, he is forced to use a lower-quality image or no image at all (or to lie by claiming to be the author of the work).
I think this should be fixed as soon as possible so that normal, reasonable people can upload normal, reasonable images.
Very frustrated, Timwi
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2009/9/15 Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com:
Timwi -
That is indeed pretty egregious. I use that dialog all the time, but usually upload my own images and so didn't really attend to whether the other options are complete.
I agree that this should be fixed, and filed a bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20648
(I thought there would be one already but couldn't find it; please dup it if necessary)
SJ
It's not a mediawiki issue. Commons could change this if it wanted. In the overwelming majority of cases releases by third parties are invalid or doin't mean what the uploader claims they mean. As a result such releases need to go via OTRS.