On 5/15/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
This policy seems very reasonable to me. I am happy you found a solution to be able to upload images necessary to illustrate wikinews articles... all while limiting related risks with competitors. This is good.
I hope other languages will soon follow as well.
I agree with Anthere on this, and it seems safe enough to enable uploads now as long as the community is happy with the policy.
Angela.
Angela wrote:
On 5/15/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
This policy seems very reasonable to me. I am happy you found a solution to be able to upload images necessary to illustrate wikinews articles... all while limiting related risks with competitors. This is good.
I hope other languages will soon follow as well.
I agree with Anthere on this, and it seems safe enough to enable uploads now as long as the community is happy with the policy.
Thirded. :-)
--Jimbo
With the agreement of the Board, I have enabled local uploads on the English edition of Wikinews.
I ask other language editions that are interested in fair use to formulate a similar whitelist policy for cases in which fair use should be allowed. The emphasis is on *whitelist* - any case not covered by the policy should be quickly deleted.
Once a policy is developed, please report it on foundation-l or wikinews-l to move forward with enabling local uploads. A brief summary of your policy in English would be very helpful.
For reference, the English fair use policy is at: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Fair_use
As before, the Wikimedia Commons should be used for any free content media.
All best,
Erik
Hey everyone,
I've written a policy regarding fair use images on the Polish edition of Wikinews. We'll be actually working based on the Polish law - hence the title of the page is "Permitted use", not "Free use".
To quickly summarize the main points of our policy: * Every "permitted use" image must contain a link to the original source * Only non-free files can be uploaded to Wikinews - the rest should go to Commons * We can upload only the following: ** Company/organizations/etc. logos ** Press attachments ** Screenshots (or parts of it, so they won't be copyright infrigements)
Of course, we won't allow any derivative works uploaded to Wikinews based on copyrighted material.
Well, I think this is all. Our users are already leaving comments on the article's talk page, and from what I heard on IRC - they all support it.
Here's a link to the policy: http://pl.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Dozwolony_u%C5%BCytek
Dariusz,
looks good. I have re-enabled uploads on the Polish Wikinews. (I hope it's OK with the Board if we take a common sense approach here and enable local uploads as soon as a reasonable policy has been implemented. We can always turn them off later if there is a problem.)
Please make sure you edit
MediaWiki:Uploadtext
to point out that the Wikimedia Commons should be used for all free content.
MediaWiki:Upload
(the text in the sidebar) should also reflect this, if possible.
All best,
Erik
hi,
Just a "newbye" question.
Is the "Upload fair use media" repository unique for all language wiki or is there One repository per language.
More simple (sorry i lack real english practice) : if I want to use a "fair use media" presents into en.wikinews, do I need to copy/paste the stuff in the french realm or do I have a direct link from the froggy (choose an another) wikinews to the english wikinews ????
I love commons for that reason : one repository for ALL wikis. (don't love border or ghetto sorry :)
jacques Divol from the french part of the force ... ... ... (who said black ?????, ;))))
Le 19 mai 05, à 00:27, Erik Moeller a écrit :
With the agreement of the Board, I have enabled local uploads on the English edition of Wikinews.
I ask other language editions that are interested in fair use to formulate a similar whitelist policy for cases in which fair use should be allowed. The emphasis is on *whitelist* - any case not covered by the policy should be quickly deleted.
Once a policy is developed, please report it on foundation-l or wikinews-l to move forward with enabling local uploads. A brief summary of your policy in English would be very helpful.
For reference, the English fair use policy is at: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Fair_use
As before, the Wikimedia Commons should be used for any free content media.
All best,
Erik _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
jacques.divol wrote:
hi,
Just a "newbye" question.
Is the "Upload fair use media" repository unique for all language wiki or is there One repository per language.
More simple (sorry i lack real english practice) : if I want to use a "fair use media" presents into en.wikinews, do I need to copy/paste the stuff in the french realm or do I have a direct link from the froggy (choose an another) wikinews to the english wikinews ????
I love commons for that reason : one repository for ALL wikis. (don't love border or ghetto sorry :)
jacques Divol from the french part of the force ... ... ... (who said black ?????, ;))))
Each language edition of Wikinews will have their unique repository, as I understand the situation. To use an image which is Fair Use on the English edition on the French edition you would need to upload the image to the French edition.
Yes, it would be easier to use commons. This is why Fair use images are the *last resort*, when there are no freely-licensed images.
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