[Foundation-l] Request: WMF commitment as a long term cultural archive?

Milos Rancic millosh at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 14:42:23 UTC 2011


On 06/02/2011 02:27 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 2 June 2011 13:24, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> There should be no explicit statement because the WMF holds it
>> self-evident to preserve. The bigger problem might be the project
>> scope. I don't know what kind of images your academic partners wishes
>> to upload.
> 
> There's also the matter that no particular image can be promised to be
> safe from local deletion processes.
> 
> (except, e.g., WMF logos etc. But even then there's a perennial policy
> suggestion to move those to a non-free repo not on Commons instead.)

Full version could be always kept at archive.org.



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