[Foundation-l] Re: Fair use on English Wikinews

[Jean-Baptiste Soufron]

If I can be of any help... :)

Le 15 mai 05 à 04:49, Anthere a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> I have shortly been talking to Amgine on irc about the new policy,  
> as well as read it.
>
> This policy seems very reasonable to me. I am happy you found a  
> solution to be able to upload images necessary to illustrate  
> wikinews articles... all while limiting related risks with  
> competitors. This is good.
>
> I hope other languages will soon follow as well.
>
> Good luck. Anthere
>
>
>
> Erik Moeller a écrit:
>
>> I would like to re-enable local uploads on the English Wikinews  
>> for the purpose of fair use image uploads only. We have worked in  
>> the last few weeks on a whitelist policy for cases where we  
>> believe fair use to be acceptable:
>> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Fair_use
>> This includes screenshots, publicity photos explicitly intended  
>> for the media, logos, and images under "semi-free" licenses which  
>> we might get under a fully free license eventually, but where a  
>> breaking news situation requires us to make a temporary compromise.
>> This is very important for us; we've already had to delete  
>> screenshots that showed a security flaw scooped by Wikinews  
>> because they were non-free and therefore not allowed on the Commons.
>> For now, there would be two upload links, "Upload media" and  
>> "Upload fair use media", one pointing to the Commons, the other to  
>> the local upload page. In MediaWiki 1.5, we can point "Upload  
>> file" to the Wikimedia Commons, and hide local uploads from the  
>> navigation. That way, we can apply "security by obscurity". Only  
>> people who read the fair use policy will find the local upload link.
>> I'd like to ask the Board to register any objections within the  
>> next week or so. If there are none, I would also recommend that  
>> the other language editions follow a similar procedure to develop  
>> their own local fair use policies, so we can re-enable local  
>> uploads on these editions one by one.
>> Erik
>>
>
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