[WikiEN-l] Image reuse

[Andrew Turvey]

----- "Stephen Bain" <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote: 
> From: "Stephen Bain" <stephen.bain at gmail.com> 
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org> 
> Sent: Thursday, 18 June, 2009 08:25:35 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Image reuse 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Steve Bennett<stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > I think I'm starting to think that if Wikipedia credited 
> > photographers, then people who reuse Wikipedia material would be more 
> > likely to do so too. 
> 
> We don't credit writers (and as of Monday reusers are being encouraged 
> not to either). 

Wikinews interestingly does for images. I never quite understood why they do and we don't - maybe it'll catch on! 

Andrew