Thank you to the Discovery team -- it seems to me that your work has been largely overshadowed by political concerns in recent months (which may have been necessary, but not pleasant).
I'm delighted to see working and useful software emerge, in spite of the challenging environment that has existed around your work. I'm delighted to see your substantive engagement (e.g., Dan and Adam, above) with feedback about the implementation.
Kudos! -Pete
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 11 March 2016 at 11:35, Adam Baso abaso@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi there - speaking to one thing I'm familiar with, with respect to image selection, we believe https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124225 should address fair use ("non-free") images, although page reparses will happen gradually (pages are cached for up to 30 days or so).
Indeed. I manually triggered a reparse on a page which I knew had a non-free page image (by adding a space < https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mario&diff=prev&oldid=709...
to a part of the page where it didn't affect the layout), and the page image was recalculated and is now a free image. Working as intended! :-)
In reply to Geni's query, it is important to point out, however, that the English Wikipedia guidelines on non-free content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content includes a list of exemptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content#Exemptions which explicitly allows non-free content to be surfaced in search results without accompanying fair use rationales. Additionally, English Wikipedia policy is not applicable on a global page such as wikipedia.org. Therefore, the portal was never actually in violation of any policy. Regardless, as Adam noted, for other reasons where this policy *did* apply, T124225 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124225 was enacted which prevents non-free images from appearing as thumbnails in search results.
Thanks, Dan
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