[Foundation-l] Free license templates

[Birgitte SB]

I think there is no chance of convincing the wikis to
move all their templates *without* leaving redirects. 

Birgitte SB

--- White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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