[Foundation-l] About that "sue and be damned" to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

[Yann Forget]

David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/7/11 John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no>:
> 
>> In the case of GalleriNOR several people uploaded images from the site
>> without prior agreement with neither NB nor NF. After a while I get in
>> touch with them and asked how we should handle the case, what people
>> believed was the right thing to do from our side and what NB and NF
>> wanted to do. First the stand was established as "the images must be
>> deleted" and "we don't want to delete them", then we said "okey we will
>> attempt to get them deleted through due process - but hey, how much of
>> the traffic come from our site?" Then things get a bit amusing. The
>> thing is, about 60% of the traffic originates from Wikimedia Commons and
>> with the additional internal traffic generated from this we probably
>> generates over 80% of the traffic on the site. This isn't neglible
>> amouths of traffic on a site, removing the images on Commons would pull
>> the plug on the majority of the traffic.
> 
> :-D
> 
> We should ask the NPG about their website traffic ;-)

Well, their site had a problem after the story has appeared on Slashdot.

> Do all NPG images have a link back? They should.

Yes, they have a link with this template
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:SourceNPGLondon

> - d.

Yann
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