[Commons-l] Need Advice on Image Permissions

[Florian Straub]

"Magnus Manske" <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote on Monday, August 20, 
2007 2:49 PM:


> On 8/20/07, Florian Straub <Flominator at gmx.net> wrote:
>> We should also try to find out, why he didn't find the page in the first 
>> place. Maybe we should include it into any image page e.g. via 
>> {{information}} ...
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> My first thought was that since this is a licensing issue, the link
> should be part of the license templates. But:
> * The license templates don't stem from a common layout template
> * There are several user templates
> * Sometimes, there is only the license category, without any templates
>
> So, I see three possible approaches:
> 1. We put the link on every "Image:" page, by namespace-sensitive
> sitenotice or the like
> 2. We put it in {{Information}} under "Permission"
> 3. We base all Licensing templates on a single layout template,
> enforce this across user license templates as well, and fix
> category-but-no-template images
>
>>From a stylistic point of view, I'd prefer #3, but #2 is probably the
> easiest sort-term fix.

I tried a poor version of 2:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AInformation&diff=7203548&oldid=6491412

Regards,

Flo