Yes, the first step is to tell them the picture needed to be donated as
free-licensed material. Last time I get the same request from Taiwan's vice
Legislator Leader I told her the same thing, then these's no more response
(they are afraid their pictures will be abused by their opposition
parties)....
Regards,
Ted Chien
-- Sent from my HTC New One
2013/10/12 上午3:45 於 "David Gerard" <dgerard(a)gmail.com> 寫道:
I just got a phone call and followup email today
asking about how to
upload a photo to be on a Wikipedia article.
This has got to be an incredibly common request. What's a standardised
way to handle it?
Here's the text I wrote back with:
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OK - the key point with contributing a picture to Wikipedia, or rather
to Wikimedia Commons, is that you are contributing it to the world -
under a free licence.
(You can't contribute a picture "for use in Wikipedia" - Wikipedia
doesn't accept those. It needs pictures of living people to be under a
licence where literally anyone can use it.)
So, you need the person or body who owns the copyright in the picture
to contribute it under a free licence. This means you lose control
over the picture, but it does contribute it to the world. This does
not control unpleasant reuses - so be very sure you think this is a
good idea.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Contributing_your_own_work
This works quite well in my experience for promotional photos. It will
rapidly become *the* picture people use.
Creative Commons by-sa is a good licence, I think - anyone can use it,
but anyone can reuse it.
Once a picture is uploaded to Commons, it can be used on Wikipedia
articles.
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- But there's got to be a better text and/or page I could refer them to ...
Assume the person this is for knows very little about Wikipedia or
content freedom.
- d.
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