[Commons-l] Proposed custom wikitext license feature for UploadWizard

Béria Lima berialima at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 09:46:32 UTC 2011


>
> *What kind of license would you expect to be included?
> *


<sarcasm> I don't know, maybe one of the hundred licenses listed here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags </ sarcasm >
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On 17 September 2011 09:43, Tobias Oelgarte
<tobias.oelgarte  googlemail.com>wrote:

> Am 17.09.2011 05:54, schrieb Neil Kandalgaonkar:
> > UploadWizard is currently not used by experienced uploaders for a number
> > of reasons, among which is that they can't use some custom wikitext
> > licenses. We'd like to address that.
> >
> > I made a mockup of a possible implementation. Comments welcome,
> > especially on balancing usability versus convenience here. We already
> > have people abusing the {{FAL}} option, and we don't want to make it
> worse.
> >
> >
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard/CustomWikiTextLicenseFeature
> >
> Custom Licenses are bad in general. What kind of license would you
> expect to be included? We should keep the number of different licenses
> as low as possible, since otherwise we loose many possibilities.
> Combining a GFDL-image with CC-BY-image is impossible, as long not one
> of the images shares one license with the other. The more licenses we
> allow, the more difficult will be the reusing. (A book with 50 license
> texts in the appendix?)
>
> Some users use custom templates for the usual licenses. One might ask if
> this is necessary. Bots  aren't really happy about it, re-users also
> have it difficult trough different formating, etc.
>
> If you include whits as a feature, then make sure to leave a notice that
> it is not meant to write your own custom licenses.
>
> Greetings Tobias
>
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