[Foundation-l] Free license templates

[White Cat]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 3:36 PM, White Cat
> <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  The tone of your response is not in the spirit of what I am trying to
> do
> >  here. I find it a bit repulsive. I would encourage you to tone it down.
> >
> >  I am not asking for an English naming. "PD" is an abbreviation like
> "UN".
> >  What you say isn't necessarily true. Japanese wikipedia for example
> uses
> >  commons compatible names for their license templates.
> >
> >
> http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:%E7%94%BB%E5%83%8F%E3%81%AE%E8%91%97%E4%BD%9C%E6%A8%A9%E8%A1%A8%E7%A4%BA%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88
> >
> >  It is obviously more than workable.
> >
> >  I think Thai people can easily read the content of the template even if
> they
> >  completely fail to read the templates name (say "{{GFDL}}") in the
> code.
> >  People who edit wikipedia will figure out what such abbreviation mean
> in a
> >  very short period of time. People who do not edit wikipedia will never
> see
> >  these template names.
> >
> >
> >
> >      - White Cat
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>
> People incorrectly upload  images, not just when uploading from local
> wikis to commons, but even when uploading directly to commons.
> Tempalte naming won't stop that problem.
>
> Now, what I've understood, is that you want all wikis to make a change
>  (and that change isn't being proposed on the wikis) to accomodate
> commons.
> You also need to take int oaccount that wikis have local uplaods, and
> thus thir  template namings need to reflect the usage and language for
> the wiki users, with a much higher priority than commons needs.
>
> Commosn has always complained when wikipedias demand commons to do
> something, telling "we're not here to serve wikipedias, we're a
> project on our own"
> Same goes reverse, wikipedias are not to serve commons, and you want
> to run a bot (for an unapproved task) to change widely used templates
> in many wikis without first discussing it with the wikis you will be
> affecting
>
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So this is merely a getting even with commons huh? Commons isn't the enemy.

     - White Cat