[Commons-l] Musing with professional photographers: further lessons learned

[Magnus Manske]

On Jan 23, 2008 12:15 PM, Artur Fijałkowski <wiki.warx at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/1/23, Rama Rama <ramaneko at gmail.com>:
>
> > 2) There is definitely a trend of professional photographers to request
> > credits under the image in articles. This is what they are accustomed to.
> > I (and a few others) think that we should make efforts to sensibilise our
> > users to this. We can definitely afford to credit people in articles. This
> > is a small concession which costs us very little and can benefit us greatly.
>
> And why professional photographer should be better treated on
> Wikimedia projects than me or any other contributor?

Everyone should be treated better. But we won't do that, it's a tradition ;-)

So at least we should treat professional photographers better, because
they are a potential source of lots of high quality images, in
contrast to the occasional PD-USGov image or
holiday-snapshot-without-people we get from people like myself...

Magnus
(sorry, couldn't resist)