[Foundation-l] Clearing up Wikimedia's media licensing policies (some important points)

[David Gerard]

On 08/02/07, Kat Walsh <kwalsh at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Enwiki went through something similar when the with-permission,
> non-commercial, and non-derivative images that were permitted (or at
> last tolerated) early on became speedy deletion candidates... many
> people upset at the loss of their hard work, and no one is ever happy
> about making that happen even where the ends are something we want.


That can't possibly be the case! Because that sounds like it's not a
conspiracy against it:wp on behalf of en:wp ...

When do we start shooting the contents of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_used_with_permission ?
Somewhere just under 640 images there, most of which are only
with-permission ... including ones I secured the permission for. Ah
well :-)


- d.