About the "replacing fair use images with free ones": unless the fair-use
image was uploaded to commons, I do not see how it is relevant. Fair use
images will be deleted from commons.
You are being asked, just the discussion is being held in meta not on
wikinews. And this isn't for any bot, just bots that take care of mindless
tasks like interwiki linking, commons delinking, and double redirect fixing.
The idea is a "centralized discussion" which any participant from any wiki
(weather it is wikinews, wikipedia or something else).
On 9/8/07, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> I think SUL is a distant dream at this point.
Really? From what I've heard, the devs are
making pretty good progress
towards it.
I've seen a demo somewhere that finds all user accounts that match up. SUL
is no easy task, but it is achievable.
Anyway, on the topic of interwiki bots, as an admin on en.wikinews I would
prefer to be asked. We protect everything when it is about a week old, so
bots that go into the archives won't work. I also have concerns that
replacing fair use images with free ones on old articles could distort
Wikinews' historical record. For example, using a picture taken years
after
an event that is free instead of one available at the time and more
representative.
Brian.
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