[WikiEN-l] SOS Children Wikipedia Selection 2008/9 BitTorrent link up

[Andrew Cates]

Thanks for the images remark.

The script looks for and recognises licence types but this one did not
have the public domain flag removed from it and the deletion notice
was atypical.

We can catch these easily and quickly, shout if you see others. There
were two out of 20000 last year.

Andrew

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Someone mentioned that in a new thread as well. I agree, it doesn't
>> look compliant. I never thought to check since it was being organised
>> by a Wikipedia Admin... That admin reads this mailing list, so
>> hopefully we'll get some comment soon.
>>
>
>
> That was me on Foundation-l, after Danny Wool mentioned it on his blog.
>
> Another problem I found is that no one has apparently vetted the images. For
> example:
>
> http://schools-wikipedia.org/images/103/10307.jpg.htm
>
> From that same F-35 Lightning article, images that were actually deleted as
> non-free images. How are we distributing this?
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/JSF_Images
>
> We have an image in the schools encyclopedia with a big bold "this is up for
> deletion" notice, and that image in fact was deleted from Commons for being
> a copyvio violation. Back in AUGUST. So we're distributing copyright
> violations.
>
> - Joe
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