On 5/9/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/9/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Going forward we should continue to strong encourage Wikimedians who release illustrations under by-sa to dual license under the GFDL. This has been a long standing recommendation on commons and it is already widely followed. For a long time it was the *only* accepted practice on enwiki, but someone 'simpilfied' the upload page and removed some important legal text. Contributors lose nothing by doing this.
That is trivially fixable by removing
self|cc-by-sa-2.5|Own work, share alike, attribution required (CC-BY-SA-2.5)
From [[MediaWiki:Licenses]] on commons.
En is slightly more complicated but could be done through some basic shuffling
Yes... This is *especially* possible now that we have a separate upload page for self-made images on commons.
As far as Enwiki, if we created a self-made split like commons has we could do this. We could just switch to using some of the older uploadtext text, such as: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Uploadtext&oldid=296...
But people would still pick the wrong license selector option. ;)
But again, I don't think we need to panic on this. It's not news to (most of) us, and we weren't panicked before.