On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:17:18 +0200, Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net wrote:
Well, my idea is, if we want to promote Wikicommons, it should be the default. So this shows that we need to be able to choose from local or Wikicommons, whatever the default is.
I think the action to encourage would be to re-upload images to Commons, deleting the originals, and investigating their copyright status in the process. The choice would come from being able to override the Commons image with a local version. This way round also has the advantage that existing uses of images won't break if somebody from another language uploads a "korea.jpeg" that's not equivalent to your "korea.jpeg", but can be made to use the shared version as soon as you confirm that the two *are* equivalent by deleting your local one.
I can see that there might be a few cases where you really wanted to say "please by-pass the local version of this file, but don't delete it", but many of these could be handled by intelligent naming conventions "korea (translated).jpeg" coupled with a working "move/rename image" function. This makes for fewer possible permutations of image location, each of which can be explained to users: * is on Commons * is in local upload area * local version obscuring Commons version (point this out on Image: page, encouraging one or other to be renamed if both might be wanted) but not: * is available locally, but bypassed to access Commons version (indicating "this image is available locally on the wiki you just came from, but has been bypassed" is more-or-less impossible technically)