On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:40 PM, <wiki-lists(a)phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote:
On the subject
of Flickr, I have a proposal.
I'd like to see an option given to Flickr users to check "license for
use on Wikipedia" which would be an easy way for people to
a) make their pictures available to us and
b) easier to find by Wikipedians.
You can already limit your search for CC-BY-SA images on flickr. Why
would you want to rename the license something else?
That's easily answered.
I'm not "renaming the license". I'm proposing that there be a tick box
for that very same license with a more friendly tag that tells the
user "can be used on Wikipedia". The license doesn't change, it's just
the way it's communicated.
I love and support the Creative Commons licenses, but they can present
you with a lot of reading. A decision that says "can be used on
Wikipedia" would be much more immediate.