[WikiEN-l] LOL

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Thu Jun 21 21:48:11 UTC 2007


Skander - wrote:

>This is really weird... My French is not so good, but it seems to say
>something along the lines of "this is a personal photograph of a user, and
>is not intended for distribution or use in the encyclopaedia". Does the
>Foundation permit these things? WP should be freely reusable and is licensed
>under the GFDL...
>
I see nothing wrong with the policy on fr:wp.  One should not assume 
that other projects will interpret things in the same way as on your 
home project.

Ec

>2007/6/21, Skander - <shinywater at gmail.com>:
>  
>
>>2007/6/21, Charlotte Webb < charlottethewebb at gmail.com>:
>>    
>>
>>>On 6/21/07, Rory Stolzenberg < rory096 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Or just a mad enwiki admin. ;)
>>>>
>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&page=Image:Norbert3.jpg
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Odd, the image has two contradictory license tags, and so does the
>>>source.
>>>http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Norbert3.jpg
>>>
>>>But neither of the tags indicates a free license.
>>>
>>>Apparently the French Wikipedia allows non-free personal images to be
>>>used in one's own user space?
>>>
>>>Does the Foundation really permit individual sites to make unusual
>>>policies like that? Weird.
>>>





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