Just out of interest, what is "doing it right" in this context. Is a link to http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Houses_of_Parliament.jpg plus an extended text along the lines of, say, the bottom of http://www.answers.com/topic/bahrain-football-club required?

I've seen (source:Wikipedia) quoted a few times on media pictures now.

-- "Casey Brown" wrote: Yeah - but the difference there is that they're actually paying Reuters for it and using it with their permission!

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Casey Brown&lt;cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: <snip> That's true. But even print sources *should* give a full credit line if asked to do so. That should ideally include the name of the photographer, and that it is GFDL content. Technically, I'm not sure if Wikipedia even needs to be mentioned (we are just the middleman), but I'm sure there is some clause somewhere that requires it. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkovEGMACgkQSPTq06lEuY/rowCfZZt1Us2u14MmRW6kiJhTMQH/ L68An0EE9DYfTxCON+Ob/ZLWNj/wyiWR =7/Yt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

----- "Unionhawk" &lt;unionhawk.sitemod(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Good challenge! I'd offer the following thoughts: 1) Advertising If everyone using Wikimedia content acknowledged that fact, it would be good advertising for us. It creates good will - people might come and see what other images we have and might donate some images or money themselves. 2) Contributors People who contribute free content don't get much from it and presumably don't really expect to. The one thing they are entitled to is attribution - a core part of our license. If they knew they were going to be attributed on Wikimedia and across the internet, they might be keen to contribute more. I've spoken to a number of freelance news photographers on flickr asking them to release their stuff for WP - knowing they will get wide recognition for their images may increase the success rates on those requests! I wouldn't be surprised if using free images becomes widespread among print media - I mean why not? The main concern is copyright, so if we can give them an easy "how to" I'm sure they'd jump at the chance.