On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 21:41, Daniel Mayer wrote:
LDC wrote:
Images should not be shared among Wikipedias. it
is our goal
to have each Wikipedia be complete and self-contained, except
for links to the Internet at large. Disk space is cheap--if
the same image appears in 10 wikis, then it should be uploaded
10 times and linked locally in each. That way, when we make
a backup of each wiki, each backup contains the whole content.
And how difficult would it be to add meta tags to each shared image for every
language that links to it? Not very I imagine (what links here already works
in a similar way).
It would be fairly trivial (once a central image base was set up) to
make per-language image backup dumps that included all images used by
language X.
There's absolutely no reason to make a human being go through the same
upload process ten times; computers are supposed to do repetitive tasks
*for* us. :)
It might be nice to have a firmer, professional legal opinion on the
image copyright problem before we go making it easier to spread images
around, though.
I already own
Wikimedia.org (notice the
"m") which would
be a great place to have a centralized media repository (and non-profit too,
BTW).
Which reminds me -- see if you can point the domain name towards
130.94.122.199 (larousse) and I'll set up a stub page in place of the
register.com "welcome to my website" stuff.
Hard drive space isn't the only resource to
consider here; more important is
our human resources:
Bing bing bing! Give this man a prize.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)