[Foundation-l] Pictures with free license about the World Economic Forum 2007 (WEF 2007)

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Fri Mar 28 13:34:05 UTC 2008


I can confirm that this is valid.  I asked them to do this, although I 
have no idea if my asking had any impact on their decision.

--Jimbo

� wrote:
> The last World Economic Forum in Davos released on Flickr some pictures
> about "very important people" with a free license compatible with Commons.
> It seems that they intentionally released such pictures to be uploaded on
> Commons, as this seems to be confirmed at
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Benjism89/WEF
> and at http://blog.anthere.org/
> 
> Unfortunately, many people on Commons don't believed that this might be true
> and the view uploaded images were requested for deletion ( See
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Project%3AWEF )
> 
> This situation should be clarified as soon as possible, otherwise all
> uploaded pictures on Commons from WEF might be deleted, and it would be
> really a pity.
> 
> Gu�rin Nicolas
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