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Je Ĵaŭdo 29 Majo 2003 02:15, Alfio Puglisi skribis:
- Images: no images are present here. AFAIK, each of them has a SQL
record (that my script skips), but the actual image data is not included.
Many images uploaded to Wikipedia are third-parties' copyrighted IP being used under the vague claim of "fair use". The project has not yet received legal advice about whether such materials can be redistributed under the terms of the GFDL; until that's resolved I at least have no intention of putting them all in one easy download, for which a significant use would be reuse and redistribution by people like yourself trying to reuse Wikipedia material.
IIRC the last word from Jimbo on the subject was: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-November/007880.html
I know several prominent Wikipedians don't seem to care about this, but I think staying true to our all-reusable-all-redistributable license is a very important aspect of maintaining Wikipedia's credibility and fulfilling the project's goals. It may not always be _expedient_, but then copying every article straight out of EB or World Book or Encarta would have been a very expedient way to build an encyclopedia, and cracking Windows XP activation codes and binary search-and-replacing '(c) Microsoft' to 'Copyleft GPL' would be a very expedient way to put out a free operating system. :P
How many megabytes of images we have?
On the English wikipedia, the upload tree contains about 437 megs at present not counting older replaced revisions of files. I'm not sure what portion are actually used or needed; and some portion of that is non-image material (sound clips, etc).
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)