2012/7/21 Platonides platonides@gmail.com:
On 21/07/12 14:33, Strainu wrote:
Create jail.wikimedia.org ?
Creating it under the WMF umbrella is unlikely, as the WMF only supports free content.
However, I have been thinking for a while about creating a NC image wiki, as most countries allow non-commercial use of such images. If I has the slightest sign that the WMF would approve of its use as 3rd party image source in Wikipedias, I would start the project tomorrow.
Strainu
I'm unsure about that. If wikipedias were going to use it, the WMF would probably want to host a local mirror anyway.
And hence my doubt over the actual approval of such a project. It could be worth bringing it up in another forum, though, I'm just not sure where.
Each interested wikipedia would have to approve a nonfree use rationale guideline, which allowed them to use a subset of that wiki files (eg. those which are free on their countries but not on US).
With regards to FOP, at least for buildings, it would be the other way around: free in the US and non-free in their country. That will probably make it somewhat more acceptable to the legal department
It would also be a very appropiate solution for the troubles generated by the URAA producing retroactive copyright.
For using those PD-Non-US images, I guess WMF would still require a Fair Use rationale for each of the used images, maybe some general «low-res usage in educational articles» (ie. main-ns) could pass, I'm not sure.
Also see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/Commons_Abroa...
Nice, I didn't know about it. It's curious that this RFC is somewhat the opposite of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Disable_local_uploads_o...
Strainu