[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Foundation Licensing Policy

geni geniice at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 14:53:15 UTC 2007


On 3/27/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> What I'd like to see is a total cleanup of all non-free images of
> living people that can be replaced with free content, using the "No
> free image" method as e.g. demonstrated on:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommi_Hovi&oldid=114878341
>

Have you talked to the Devs about this? they may not be too happy
about that spreading across projects (I also can't get the equivalent
system for buildings to work at the moment which suggests the uselang
system has some features I don't know about)

> It would also be nice if free content became a more consistent part of
> the featured article candidate process; at least a couple recent
> articles featured on the Main Page had to have their images removed
> because of excessive use of non-free content.

That was unusual. There are various activities in place that should
reduce the chance of this happening in future.

-- 
geni



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