On 7/18/06, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
There's so much benefit to uploading them to Commons (improving the status of Commons as a free repository, getting images used across all of the Wikipedias, etc.), it seems almost criminal to not upload them there.
Though to be fair, uploading is only half the job. Most people don't realise that categorising them makes them actually useful. At the very least, a category describing the thing it's a photo of: [[Sulfur-crested cockatoo]], [[Kilkenny Castle]] or [[MacDonalds]]. Strangely, we don't seem to mention that fact much.
That's my take on it too. Something which seems quite natural to a bunch of US editors, steeped in US copyright notions and law, can often be quite complicated when introduced into a more international forum, without even taking into account language differences. But it generally works out, eventually.
Examples probably help.
Steve