On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:09 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 26 July 2010 11:48, Bryan Tong Minh
<bryan.tongminh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:24 PM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)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).
<snip>
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