On 15/08/05, James A. Bowery <jabowery(a)laboratoryofthestates.com> wrote:
Finlay McWalter wrote:
Folks,
Algebra.com (which also goes by the name
cooldictionary.com)
appears to be leeching images directly from the wikimedia upload server.
What is the accepted means for copying the images from wikipedia? My
impression was there was some sort of copyright problem due to the fact
that, unlike the text content, the image content of Wikipedia is not,
_reliably_ under one of the free licenses such as the GFDL.
Image dumps are available from
http://download.wikimedia.org/images/
but are to be used "at your own risk" - as explained in
http://download.wikimedia.org/images/README_ABOUT_COPYRIGHT.txt
Using the appropriate database dumps you could probably select out a
reasonable subset using the template-and-category based labelling
system - i.e. delete those with no such tags, those marked as "fair
use", and any other licenses likely to be incompatible with your
mirror. Obviously, a better system, where this meta-information was
built into the dumps, or available neatly standalone, would be nice,
but not easy.
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]