This is a rather high traffic mailing list. We cannot ask them to
monitor it, best to contact them directly imho.
Ant
csherlock(a)ljh.com.au a écrit:
Have we asked if they could put a
answer.com person to
monitor this
mailing list?
TBSDY
Christiaan Briggs wrote:
>
Answers.com response to my query (below):
>
> On 31 Mar 2005, at 11:26 am, GuruNet Support wrote:
>
>> Dear Christiaan,
>>
>> Thank you for contacting GuruNet.
>>
>> We really appreciate your bringing this to our attention,
>> Christiaan, and have forwarded your message to our Engineering Team.
>> The problem is that we are working from a dump of Wikipedia content,
>> but apparently, there is no dump of the Commons data. However, our
>> engineers are aware of the problem and are looking into a solution
>> that will work best all around.
>>
>> We'll let you know when we've deployed a solution to this problem.
>> Similarly, if you could keep us informed of any development at
>> Wikipedia regarding this matter, we'd really appreciate it.
>>
>> If we can be of any further assistance, please don't hesitate to
>> contact us.
>>
>> Sincerely yours,
>> Alan Baklor
>> GuruNet Customer Support
>>
http://www.gurunet.com
>> The Answer Engine
>
>
>
>> On 28 Mar 2005, at 1:32 am, Christiaan Briggs wrote:
>>
>>> I sent them the following message via
>>>
http://www.answers.com/main/contact_us.jsp
>>>
>>> To whom it concerns,
>>>
>>> I'm writing regarding copyright conditions of images from
>>>
Wikipedia.org used on
Answers.com
>>>
>>> I noticed recently that many of the Wikipedia images used on
>>>
Answers.com do not appear to follow copyright conditions (such as
>>> crediting authors):
>>>
http://www.answers.com/library/Wikipedia+Images
>>>
>>> From what I can tell this problem is restricted to images that are
>>> uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org (rather
>>> than directly to Wikipedia), which results in there only being a
>>> link to the relevant Wikimedia Commons page rather than a full
>>> description on the Wikipedia page.
>>>
>>> So for instance this image includes relevant info because it was
>>> uploaded directly to Wikipedia (and hence the description was added
>>> directly to its Wikipedia page):
>>>
http://www.answers.com/topic/broads-jpg
>>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Broads.jpg
>>>
>>> However this image does not include image info (and nor, for that
>>> matter, does it include the link to the relevant Wikimedia Commons
>>> page):
>>>
http://www.answers.com/topic/bees-collecting-pollen-2004-08-14-jpg
>>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08
>>> -14.jpg
>>> The info of which you will find by following the link on the page
>>> above to:
>>>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004
>>> -08-14.jpg
>>>
>>> This is obviously not an ideal situation from our point of view, as
>>> we'd like to have the image info on the Wikipedia image page and
>>> not have to direct people to another page, however, for various
>>> reasons, we're stuck with the current setup, which looks to have
>>> resulted in a technical hitch causing
Answers.com not to follow
>>> licence conditions.
>>>
>>> I'm wouldn't have a foggiest clue about the mechanics of this
>>> process but it seems to me that, until Wikipedia deals with this
>>> issue at their end,
Answers.com still needs to deal with the issue
>>> at their end, meaning
Answers.com needs to pull the relevant image
>>> info from Wikimedia Commons when appropriate (as per the second
>>> example above).
>>>
>>> I'm in contact with administrators and other editors via a
>>> Wikipedia emailing list, so I will be sure to pass on any response
>>> you send me.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your time,
>>> Christiaan Briggs
>>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Christiaan
>>