On Sunday 01 June 2003 07:02, Erik Moeller wrote:
Erik,
[external linking of "fair use" images]
Alas, it also has several problems:
- When the website is down, the image is no longer available. Broken links
often go unnoticed for longer periods of time because we have no way to systematically check them.
- The image is no longer embedded in the proper context. It becomes
difficult to associate image content with image text.
- The reader is taken away from the Wikipedia navigational structure to a
non-HTML image page. This is bad user interface design.
So the win/win/win/win situation becomes a win/win/win/win/lose/lose/lose situation, at which point I think it more convenient to refer to it as a suboptimal solution.
I am more interested in the consequences of adding "fair use" images to the articles. As Axel pointed out we will violate the GFDL by embedding "fair use" images in our articles. This means that we have to change the license (at least for these articles) or even worse have to rewrite the whole article because such a license change is unlikely to be compatible with GFDL. Another thing is that we should remove the "free" from wikipedia.
Erik, I haven't seen a comment from you about this so far, but I would be very interested how you want to solve these problems.
best regards, Marco