On 7/20/07, Omegatron <omegatron+wikienl(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What does the uploading of non-free images have to do with the fact that
we
are a free content encyclopedia? All of our encyclopedic content is free,
and always will be. I don't see this changing because of our use of
non-free images.
Images are encyclopedic content. You cannot reasonably write an
encyclopaedia article on an iconic image without that image in some way
being reproduced.
(And our use of non-free images is only *decreasing* over time, as our
ability to use certain types of images is restricted
further and further
by
agenda-pushing policy makers. It's a far different situation now than it
was when I started editing four years ago.)
What I think concerns people like Durin and definitely myself is that our
culture is definitely becoming more pro-non-free - i.e. "What's wrong with
non-free content?" Four years ago, I think, more editors understood what it
meant to be a free encyclopaedia.
Johnleemk