On 25 August 2014 03:57, Mark delirium@hackish.org wrote:
On 8/24/14, 7:03 PM, Jeevan Jose wrote:
Try to "download as PDF" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheetah
Check Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors.
It attributes File:Cheetah Feb09 02.jpg Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Cheetah_Feb09_02.jpg License: unknown Contributors: Fir0002, Peteforsyth
This is very wrong as license is not fetched and photographer is only Fir; not all people edited that "file" page.
I raised this complaint earlier (in Commons). This is mentioned at EN too by Stefan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Copying_within_ Wikipedia#For_legal_team_review
Fwiw, a new PDF exporter is being tested, and looks like it'll be deployed soon: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PDF_rendering
It might be worth checking (I have not) what attribution is done in the new exporter. If it's better, then the right fix would be to just deploy the new exporter ASAP.
Best, Mark
I don't know, it seems to me that deploying new software ASAP before it has been exhaustively tested by the end user base has caused a few headaches lately ;-).
Cheers, Craig