I think that Commons is not only better equipped to handle all these redirects, but also that it make more sense to have hundreds of redirects on one wiki instead of dozens of redirects on hundreds of wikis. This is the real meat of the situation, who deals with the redirects; Commons or everyone except Commons. Training Commons users to handle these has a much better chance of success than training everyone else.
Birgitte SB
--- White Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko@gmail.com wrote:
Although this has been probably discussed before...
We currently have a problem with the names chosen for licenses on all wikis. Let me explain. Consider the following 5 categories. I have noticed that they all have a different name for most of the free licenses. Each language tends to translate the license name and sticks to that name.
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Resim_telif_etiketleri
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:Mod%C3%A8le_de_licence_d%27image
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Vorlage:Lizenz_f%C3%BCr_Bilder
http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B...
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:Template_copyright
Ideally all freely licensed images will eventually be moved to commons. So all copyright related info should be as commons compatible as possible. Translated template names cause a few problems.
This practice will lead to commons having hundreds of redirects per free license. Juggling them makes work on commons more difficult. For example each of those redirects would need to be protected against vandalism as such vandalism may even have legal implications. For example someone may sneak a disclaimer to GFDL templates. Such template names are also not bot-friendly.
I would suggest a uniformed template name on all wikis.
- White Cat
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