From: Cary Bass <cary(a)wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] PD-art and official "position of the
WMF"
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Monday, August 25, 2008, 5:13 PM
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Birgitte SB wrote:
However if both sides of the debate were not
compatible with WMF's values and licensing policies, I
am sure the board would be vocal in pointing out the
problem. They spoke up loudly enough when it.WP was using
"with permission" images. So I would interpret
Domas saying "I'd really like to trust the
community [with preserving WMF values]" (as well as
silence from the rest of board) to mean "both sides of
the debate seem to be inbounds of WMF policy and values
right now". it.WP certainly wasn't told that their
community was trusted to do as they saw fit to preserve WMF
values. They were pretty much told to change their policy.
Birgitte SB
I've noticed that Italian Wikipedia contains a rather
large number of
cc-by-nd, cc-by-nc and various different combinations
thereof images
like that[1]. I was not aware of any moment when the
Foundation told
it.wp it wasn't trusted to preserve WMF values, and
feel secure that if
this took place after the EDP policy went into effect then
I would have
heard something about it...can you source that?
- --
Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
[1]
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:Immagini_creative_commons
I never said it.WP was told it wasn't trusted to preserve WMF values. (a negative
statement)
Rather when the issue was brought up here (just like the PD-Art issue) they were NOT told
what Commons has been told regarding being trusted to decide the issue internally. (a
positive statement)
It.WP was told to change it's policy (a positive statement)
Just wanted to clear that up even though I don't have time to dig through the
archives. Don't know if that actually clarifies. But not being told what Commons has
been told != Being told the negative of what Commons has been told.
Birgitte SB
BTW this did not happen after EDP