On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@yahoo.com wrote:
There is a long thread on the Commons and Gendergap lists about today's featured image on Commons:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-May/ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-May/
It's an original piece of art by a Wikimedian, "in the style of" erotic manga:
I could continue to say what said in the past.
Commons is a "common repository for the various projects".
Now the real problem is that Commons is in conflict with other projects because "original works" of pure fantasy (I don't include "original works" to document the reality) are not accepted, except in Commons.
In general if I would use these images in Wikipedia, for example, I would be in conflict because I cannot use "original works" in this project (and this image is a "strict" original work).
In my opinion Commons is moving the project in an incorrect direction and I would appreciate a lot if Commons will divide the project to receive "original works" of pure fantasy in one repository and the documentary work in another in order to help the other project to understand what is original and what is not original.
Commons should have the same rule of Wikisource/Wikibooks.
Ilario