[WikiEN-l] A new way of image uploading. Sort of

[Gwern Branwen]

geni <geniice at gmail.com> writes:

> OK there is still some fiddling to be done but You can see the first
> example of something I hope will become widespread here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet
>
> be sure to click the image to look around the stuff behind it (mostly
> a new separate image upload page but there are other things)
>
> As I said it isn't quite finished and suggestions are welcome.
>
> Much credit goes to Editor at Large for the SVG, Gmaxwell for much of
> the formatting and Brion for turning on the required extension on en.
> -- 
> geni

I would suggest capitalizing 'free'. There are no doubt plenty of free
as in cost images which you can download without paying anything
(<http://images.google.com/images?q=david%20mamet&num=30&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi>),
but that's quite different from what we want, which are Freely-licensed
images. It should be emphasized from the beginning that it's free as in
speech not money. It's a hard and unusual concept for a lot of people,
if all the image deletions on en are anything to go by.

-- 
Gwern
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