Hello,
Not sure exactly where to write about this.
I may have not understood something very well, if not, please explain to me.
When someone upload an image to wikicommons and place it under gfdl license, I would tend
to say that re-using this image would have to follow gfdl license. We know that we do not
respect well gfdl license for text, since it is very difficult to follow all authors, but
for an image, it should not be a lot of problem to respect it, since there is only one
author, the one who took the picture.
So, normally, to follow gfdl license, when we use the image we should 1) mention the gfdl
and 2) mention the author, no ? So that anyone reusing the image would be able to follow
the gfdl in turn.
What bugs me is that if I upload a picture to say the french wikipedia, it is written in
the image comment that I took the picture, so I am granted the authorship of my work, and
anyone using the image could either mention wikipedia or myself. But at least, he has the
information available. Besides, the reader can see a description of the image.
When I upload an image on wikicommons, I can write this information over there, but this
information is no more directly available to the guy using the information.
The author name is not mentionned, nor is the description. On some wikipedias, there is a
sort of mention toward the description page, but to be fair, the link is not frankly
visible.
Look on the english wikipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ThoraThora1.JPG
Practically, if a reader comes around and want to use the picture, I am ready to say that
in at least 50% of the case, either he will not see the link, or he will not care and just
take the picture.
I would be glad that template makes it more obvious where the author and the description
of the image is.
In other less completed wikipedias, there is no template at all. So, in effect, my
authorship is gone and I cannot even complain to the guy using the picture, since he just
has no idea who the author is.
http://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hoggar5.jpg
I took that picture and in this case, display of the picture is to my opinion a sort of
"violation" of the contract between wikipedias and its authors. Would it be
possible that a standard template is set, and mandatory for any picture resources used
from commons, so that even if this template is not locally translated, a basic template
redirects to the proper LICENSE TERMS and information ?
Finally, I think it a bit embarassing that when I upload to commons, I have no more choice
of languages. Perhaps I did not find it yet :-) Is there a way to make a comment both in
french and english ? Would not it be nice that the software recognise this, and displays
the french comment on the french speaking projects, while it would display the english
comment by default on all other projects ?
I think this is important. I was beginning to upload many pictures on wikicommons to share
them. Still, I am a bit bugged to discover that doing so sorta ripped informations which
should be mandatory, imho, below the image itself.
What is people opinion on this ?
Anthere
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