[Foundation-l] Commons as an art gallery?

Andreas Kolbe jayen466 at yahoo.com
Mon May 16 16:29:40 UTC 2011


Neil posted the following on Commons-l* and asked for it to be 
cross-posted here: --

* See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-May/006038.html
* Also see  http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-May/006036.html for a longer post by Neil on the image


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On 5/16/11 5:40 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:

> This is really a Foundation topic though. Are projects' main pages there to
> showcase Wikimedians' fine art?

No. This is a non-issue.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope#Must_be_realistically_useful_for_an_educational_purpose

"Examples of files that are not realistically useful for an educational 
purpose: [...]
    * Self-created artwork without obvious educational use."

QED.

Someone else cross-post this to Foundation-L... I have assiduously 
avoided subscribing there and don't plan to now.


-- 
Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) <neilk at wikimedia.org>






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