[Foundation-l] Free license templates

White Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com
Sun Apr 20 09:53:36 UTC 2008


Why even have any redirects on any wiki? In long term you are asking for
hundreds of thousands of redirects that could have been easily avoided.

     - White Cat

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I think that Commons is not only better equipped to
> handle all these redirects, but also that it make more
> sense to have hundreds of redirects on one wiki
> instead of dozens of redirects on hundreds of wikis.
> This is the real meat of the situation, who deals with
> the redirects; Commons or everyone except Commons.
> Training Commons users to handle these has a much
> better chance of success than training everyone else.
>
> Birgitte SB
>
>
> --- White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Although this has been probably discussed before...
> >
> > We currently have a problem with the names chosen
> > for licenses on all wikis.
> > Let me explain. Consider the following 5 categories.
> > I have noticed that
> > they all have a different name for most of the free
> > licenses. Each language
> > tends to translate the license name and sticks to
> > that name.
> >
> >
> http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Resim_telif_etiketleri
> >
>
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:Mod%C3%A8le_de_licence_d%27image
> >
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Vorlage:Lizenz_f%C3%BCr_Bilder
> >
>
> http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0:%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5
> >
> http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:Template_copyright
> >
> > Ideally all freely licensed images will eventually
> > be moved to commons. So
> > all copyright related info should be as commons
> > compatible as possible.
> > Translated template names cause a few problems.
> >
> > This practice will lead to commons having hundreds
> > of redirects per free
> > license. Juggling them makes work on commons more
> > difficult. For example
> > each of those redirects would need to be protected
> > against vandalism as such
> > vandalism may even have legal implications. For
> > example someone may sneak a
> > disclaimer to GFDL templates. Such template names
> > are also not bot-friendly.
> >
> >
> > I would suggest a uniformed template name on all
> > wikis.
> >
> >    - White Cat
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