[Foundation-l] Mayflower: Wikimedia Commons media search

[Husky]

I don't think you have to start with *all* licenses (that would indeed be a
very long list). Simply starting with some of the most popular ones you
could capture a major part of the collection. Licenses like
* {{PD-old}}
* {{PD-Art-YorckProject}}
* {{PD Art}}
* {{self2|GFDL|cc-by-2.5}}
* {{self2|GFDL|cc-by-sa-2.5,2.0,1.0}}
* {{PD-self}}
Are used by many pictures throughout the whole project. If you could only
match these you could already display the license under a lot of the images.

And for more licenses you could take one of the main license categories such
as
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_domain
And extract all categories from there and use it for the 'license array'.

However easy it might seem, i'm not sure if this will work out. As i said
before, i'm not a programmer :)

-- Hay Kranen / [[User:Husky]]

On 2/15/07, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>
> >> 3) matching the template tags with the licenses array and using that to
> >> display the license in the Mayflower results screen?
> >
> > Because there are so many different minor permutations, even if you
> > could extract all the licenses, figuring out the mapping to something
> > small enough to put in the interface is a challenge alone.
>
> This is a resolvable problem; the more minor the permutation, the smaller
> its effect on the image that shows up in the interface...
>
> SJ
>
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