[WikiEN-l] Attributing "attribution required" free images

[Thomas Dalton]

On 29/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/29/07, Eugene van der Pijll <eugene at vanderpijll.nl> wrote:
> > Not really, 99% of our text is written by Wikipedians, who have no
> > expectation to be prominently attributed; we have taken many of our best
> > pictures from outsiders, many of whom expect more prominent credit to be
> > given. They don't care about, and haven't ever explicitly agreed to
> > Wikipedia's internal rules on attribution.
>
> Cite?

Text on Wikipedia is almost universally released under GFDL
specifically to be used on Wikipedia. We rarely take text from
anywhere else except in specific quotes, which we would always
attribute (no point quoting someone without saying who you're
quoting), and are used under fair use rather than being released under
a certain license, anyway. We often take images from other places
where they have been released under a variety of licenses, often we no
intention for them to be used on Wikipedia. There is a big difference.
(Whether or not it's a legally significant difference, I don't know,
but it is a big difference.)