In addition to a talk: page, an editable image description page would be nice. The author could describe the image's copyright there, and also how the image was acquired/generated. (If some automated script was used to generate a picture, the GFDL arguably requires that the source code of the script be available, since that is the "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.") This description page would also show the current version of the image and uneditable meta information (when uploaded, by whom etc.), and have a talk page attached. You would access it by clicking on an image.
If at all possible, the history of the image description page should show older versions of the image.
Like Brion said, we'd need another namespace: image: for the image image description: for the description image description talk: for talking
Axel
At 06:21 PM 6/04/02 +0200, you wrote:
In addition to a talk: page, an editable image description page would be nice. The author could describe the image's copyright there, and also how the image was acquired/generated. (If some automated script was used to generate a picture, the GFDL arguably requires that the source code of the script be available, since that is the "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.")
Also, if something like Photoshop was used to generate the image, then the full Photoshop file with all the layers and elements unflattened should probably be uploaded to Wikipedia as well. In the description page you could include a link to the .psd file or whatever.
Hm... does this apply to jpegging images as well? If I have a non-lossily-compressed original, I always save that and do all my modifications on that, jpegging only what's to be displayed. Otherwise, the jpeg gets recompressed every time I edit it.
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