I see a lot of well meaning people responding here, but maybe its time to go back to the basics. No non free pictures, period. No more bureaucracy plus cost savings on not having to run the permissions systems.
________________________________ From: Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sun, November 22, 2009 3:05:02 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Building The Great Monument of Bureaucracy
2009/11/22 Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net:
Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
The idea is to create a "Staging Area" - a wiki (or non-wiki) project which is not public and can be used for media and meta-data mass storage before sending the stuff to public projects. The idea is that all permissions and other legal stuff would be carefully solved before sending anything to Commons, so the mass contributors coming from outside organisation would not need to cope with OTRS system.
It's hard to see how the problems of bureaucracy could be solved by establishing a meta-bureaucracy.
Very simply. If an organisation is going to make a project it will get their own space on "Staging Area" and will upload their stuff there without any legal problems. Then, one or more editors must examine this stuff adding to it meta-data and resolve all legal problems before sending it to Commons or any other WIkimedia project. The formal agreements can be stored on "Staging Area" and be made visible for OTRS volunteers. So instead of sending houndres of E-mails from all contributors of the project there will be only one pointing to the meta-data stored on Staging Area. Anyway, if you organize a mass contributors project you must be sure that all contributors were informed how free licences work, that their contribiutions can be used for commercial purposes, that anyone can copy and modify it.