[Foundation-l] a new free image!

[effe iets anders]

Yeah, meta-l would be great for this :) I heard someone that it might be set
up, i hope it comes soon! :)

Lodewijk

2007/2/24, James Forrester <jdforrester op gmail.com>:
>
> On 24/02/07, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio op gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/24/07, geni <geniice op gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 2/24/07, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio op gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > That's an good idea. I was also going to suggest, where
> > > > people/projects want to use *some* fair use images, might it be an
> > > > idea to somehow identify fair use images as such *within the
> article*
> > > > - by, say, putting a coloured border around it and having a text
> that
> > > > says "This image is not free - help us find one", and linking to a
> > > > template or other page as is done in this case?
> > > >
> > > > Dunno..
> > > >
> > > > Cormac
> > > >
> > >
> > > This has been suggested but has never really got anywhere. You
> > > couldn't quite patch it into the fromowner system because step 4 in
> > > the upload instructions wouldn't work. You could set up a parallel
> > > system. The Devs might not be too happy though.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Right - I was actually thinking of something that would be activated
> > (for want of a better word) when including the image within an
> > article. Couldn't it be a simple template that would include the image
> > as well as the colours/texts around the image that indicate "fair use
> > - not free"? True, this would mean it is up to the person including
> > the image to see whether the image is free or fair use - but it could
> > easily become standard practice.
>
> A much technically neater solution, which doesn't rely on users doing
> the right thing, is surely to have local files (all of which will be
> tagged as non-free, as otherwise they'd be on Commons, post SUL) have
> such "WARNING, BAD NASTY EVIL COPYRIGHTSNESS!" image CSS.
>
> But this is, really, not the best place to be having such a
> discussion; perhaps commons-l, or wikipedia-l (though other projects
> use images too, obviously).
>
> Yours,
> --
> James D. Forrester
> jdforrester op wikimedia.org | james op jdforrester.org | jdforrester op gmail.com
> [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
>
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