I would strongly urge us to turn uploads on and run with it for a
month or two. If we're going in the wrong direction with the uploads,
we can always turn it off and debate some more. Let's not have
never-ending policy discussions continue to constrain the project:
images are things we can delete or move to the commons at a later
point, if the policy changes.
-ilya
On 4/23/05, Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> wrote:
It is true that the English Wikipedia is currently
falling down on the
permissive side of the fair use spectrum, often to the detriment of the
search for free content. It is a legitimate question whether a fair use
implementation is possible that does not open the floodgates to non-free
content.
One idea that came up on the German Wikipedia, which faces a similar
problem, is to have the upload link in the sidebar point to the Commons,
and to only have Special:Upload (for local uploads) linked to from some
policy page where the purpose of local uploads is explained. Through
this simple "security by obscurity" measure, lazy uploads could perhaps
be prevented.
The current proposed fair use policy also seeks to address the concern
by being very explicit in that "logos and publicity shots" can be fair
use, but most other images can't, specifically no photos by other news
organizations. I don't know how enforcable that is in practice.
Erik
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