[WikiEN-l] Image contribution embarassment

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sat Jun 14 21:57:51 UTC 2008


2008/6/14 Kat Walsh <kat at mindspillage.org>:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

>> People here might be interested in my post at
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28policy%29#Image_submission_embarassment

> After reading his post I'm disappointed to see this also; I think this
> consequence wasn't in the minds of the people supporting this
> proposal. Since I do take a hardline position on image copyright
> issues, I'd also like it to be easy for us to get free images from
> people who aren't our regular user base and who do already find it
> difficult to contribute media.
> I'm interested in hearing thoughts from David, Mark, or someone else
> actively involved in soliciting free images from outside the usual
> Wikimedians...


My thought is "what the fuck?"

Is there any way this can be reversed, quickly, for en:wp?


- d.



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