A lot of questions here. IF an image is hosted and not used for in 100 years, it would be up to the people in 100 years to decide. Any guarantee we try to make for such periods is absolutely useless. Every rule we make can be re-discussed and changed in such a period.
If an organization such as the NYT uses an image from commons by inline linking, then we could indeed invalidate their historical research by deleting that image if it contains a copyright violation. CV are the main reason for deletion. Other reasons include bad quality, and duplicate images.
Teun Spaans Everybody knew it was impossible, until someone turned up who didnt know that
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Wjhonson wjhonson@aol.com wrote:
Because Commons is to be used by the world, not just sister projects. If the New York Times Online links a picture in from Commons (and credits it properly) are we going to make their later-historical story useless by deleting the picture ?
-----Original Message----- From: Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thu, Jun 2, 2011 11:01 am Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Request: WMF commitment as a long term cultural archive?
On 2 June 2011 14:21, Fae faenwp@gmail.com wrote:
Briefly responding to a couple of points raised so far:
Yes, there is a need for a policy as otherwise the WMF would have no long term operational archive plan.
Why would we have an archive plan? Archives are for things that aren't expected to needed on a regular basis any more but may need to be referred to in the future. We're not going to archive things on Commons, they'll just stay on Commons indefinitely.
If an image is hosted on Commons for 100 years and NEVER used by any other Wikimedia project would we, or why should we, retain it?
Fred
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