[WikiEN-l] Re: Images on Answers.com and copyright conditions

[Anthere]

This is a rather high traffic mailing list. We cannot ask them to 
monitor it, best to contact them directly imho.

Ant

csherlock at ljh.com.au a écrit:
> Have we asked if they could put a answer.com person to monitor this 
> mailing list?
> 
> TBSDY
> 
> Christiaan Briggs wrote:
> 
>> Answers.com response to my query (below):
>>
>> On 31 Mar 2005, at 11:26 am, GuruNet Support wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Christiaan,
>>>
>>> Thank you for contacting GuruNet.
>>>
>>> We really appreciate your bringing this to our attention, 
>>> Christiaan,  and have forwarded your message to our Engineering Team. 
>>> The problem  is that we are working from a dump of Wikipedia content, 
>>> but  apparently, there is no dump of the Commons data. However, our  
>>> engineers are aware of the problem and are looking into a solution  
>>> that will work best all around.
>>>
>>> We'll let you know when we've deployed a solution to this problem.  
>>> Similarly, if you could keep us informed of any development at  
>>> Wikipedia regarding this matter, we'd really appreciate it.
>>>
>>> If we can be of any further assistance, please don't hesitate to  
>>> contact us.
>>>
>>> Sincerely yours,
>>> Alan Baklor
>>> GuruNet Customer Support
>>> http://www.gurunet.com
>>> The Answer Engine
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 28 Mar 2005, at 1:32 am, Christiaan Briggs wrote:
>>>
>>>> I sent them the following message via  
>>>> http://www.answers.com/main/contact_us.jsp
>>>>
>>>> To whom it concerns,
>>>>
>>>> I'm writing regarding copyright conditions of images from  
>>>> Wikipedia.org used on Answers.com
>>>>
>>>> I noticed recently that many of the Wikipedia images used on  
>>>> Answers.com do not appear to follow copyright conditions (such as  
>>>> crediting authors):
>>>> http://www.answers.com/library/Wikipedia+Images
>>>>
>>>> From what I can tell this problem is restricted to images that are  
>>>> uploaded to Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org (rather  
>>>> than directly to Wikipedia), which results in there only being a 
>>>> link  to the relevant Wikimedia Commons page rather than a full 
>>>> description  on the Wikipedia page.
>>>>
>>>> So for instance this image includes relevant info because it was  
>>>> uploaded directly to Wikipedia (and hence the description was added  
>>>> directly to its Wikipedia page):
>>>> http://www.answers.com/topic/broads-jpg
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Broads.jpg
>>>>
>>>> However this image does not include image info (and nor, for that  
>>>> matter, does it include the link to the relevant Wikimedia Commons  
>>>> page):
>>>> http://www.answers.com/topic/bees-collecting-pollen-2004-08-14-jpg
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08 
>>>> -14.jpg
>>>> The info of which you will find by following the link on the page  
>>>> above to:
>>>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004 
>>>> -08-14.jpg
>>>>
>>>> This is obviously not an ideal situation from our point of view, as  
>>>> we'd like to have the image info on the Wikipedia image page and 
>>>> not  have to direct people to another page, however, for various 
>>>> reasons,  we're stuck with the current setup, which looks to have 
>>>> resulted in a  technical hitch causing Answers.com not to follow 
>>>> licence conditions.
>>>>
>>>> I'm wouldn't have a foggiest clue about the mechanics of this 
>>>> process  but it seems to me that, until Wikipedia deals with this 
>>>> issue at  their end, Answers.com still needs to deal with the issue 
>>>> at their  end, meaning Answers.com needs to pull the relevant image 
>>>> info from  Wikimedia Commons when appropriate (as per the second 
>>>> example above).
>>>>
>>>> I'm in contact with administrators and other editors via a 
>>>> Wikipedia  emailing list, so I will be sure to pass on any response 
>>>> you send me.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your time,
>>>> Christiaan Briggs
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Christiaan
>>>