On 7/20/07, Omegatron omegatron+wikienl@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