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.
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). 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...