On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:09 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 July 2010 11:48, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:24 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
But Commons contains a certain number of non-free files, specifically Wikimedia logos and so forth. I just noticed (on a wiki using InstantCommons) that these are served up through it just the same. Is there any relatively simple way to stop this happening? (Including not caring.)
Either not caring, or moving the Wikimedia logos to meta and configuring meta as a second foreign file repo to the Wikimedia projects. I think both options have been proposed before.
The second sounds like way too much faff (and has been consistently rejected on "don't be silly" grounds).
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Personally, I'd rather we did move the 5500 Wikimedia-only images to Meta. Making Commons 100% free content would be clearer to reusers and make more general sense than having a site that is 99.92% free content. Of course, such a move would take considerable effort for relatively small gain, and thus far few people have been interested in doing this (i.e. most people think it is "silly").
-Robert Rohde