Yeah, meta-l would be great for this :) I heard someone that it might be set
up, i hope it comes soon! :)
Lodewijk
2007/2/24, James Forrester <jdforrester(a)gmail.com>om>:
On 24/02/07, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/24/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 2/24/07, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's an good idea. I was also going to suggest, where
> > people/projects want to use *some* fair use images, might it be an
> > idea to somehow identify fair use images as such *within the
article*
> > - by, say, putting a coloured border
around it and having a text
that
says "This image is not free - help us find
one", and linking to a
template or other page as is done in this case?
Dunno..
Cormac
This has been suggested but has never really got anywhere. You
couldn't quite patch it into the fromowner system because step 4 in
the upload instructions wouldn't work. You could set up a parallel
system. The Devs might not be too happy though.
Right - I was actually thinking of something that would be activated
(for want of a better word) when including the image within an
article. Couldn't it be a simple template that would include the image
as well as the colours/texts around the image that indicate "fair use
- not free"? True, this would mean it is up to the person including
the image to see whether the image is free or fair use - but it could
easily become standard practice.
A much technically neater solution, which doesn't rely on users doing
the right thing, is surely to have local files (all of which will be
tagged as non-free, as otherwise they'd be on Commons, post SUL) have
such "WARNING, BAD NASTY EVIL COPYRIGHTSNESS!" image CSS.
But this is, really, not the best place to be having such a
discussion; perhaps commons-l, or wikipedia-l (though other projects
use images too, obviously).
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
jdforrester(a)wikimedia.org | james(a)jdforrester.org | jdforrester(a)gmail.com
[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
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