Hi,
Actually I don't control the FB page.
I was just interested to spread awareness of Wikimedia Commons on Facebook.
Regards,
Yann
2016-05-16 9:07 GMT+02:00 Steinsplitter Wiki <steinsplitter-wiki(a)live.com>
:
As far i can see there are two volunteers listed
at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Social_media/Facebook , i
talked with Yann - it wasn't him.
The second volunteer is Rodrigo.Argenton, and i am wondering who granted
him access - looking at his block log i don't feel comfortable at all [1].
Opinion: A page on meta schould be created and who operates which account.
--Steinsplitter
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=…
From: jamesofur(a)gmail.com
Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 14:31:52 -0700
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons Picture of the Year 2015 round 2
voting has
started
Actually those uploading images on the Wikimedia Commons FB page are
volunteers
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Social_media/Facebook> (I
don't
think they're all listed there but probably
the right place to start),
I'd
encourage you to talk to them directly if you
think there is a problem
with
their uploads instead of jumping to conclusions
and assuming it must be
the
"evil WMF" doing it and using a great
thread like this to try and score
some points against them.
For those interested:
I know that the verified channels which the Communication team posts on
frequently (Especially the Wikimedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> &
Wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> twitter and the Wikipedia FB
page
<https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia>)
purposely follow a set of Best
Practices
<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Best_practices#On_Wikimedia_Fo…
that include very explictly "Do not post media that is not either owned
or
co-owned by the Wikimedia Foundation (such as
photos we take), in the
public domain or licensed under CC0". They do occasionally post other CC
images but only after getting explicit approval/permission from the
copyright holder including how to attribute etc.
On a personal basis I think the inability to post most CC images on SM
sites is a massive problem for the licenses as a whole (and for many
free
licenses). This is not only because SM sites are
such a large part of
modern life right now (and so we are cutting off an important audience
who
we WANT using free images rather then repeatedly
using more closed
copyrighted material, though they are still doing that now ALSO against
the
SM Terms of Use) but it's also because
it's so befuddling to people that
they generally ignore it encouraging people to ignore the licenses in
general. Not only the general public but those who know the licences
well
think of them as designed to ALLOW sharing so the
idea that they can't
share them is shocking to them (so they DO share them). In fact,
contrary
to your accusation, I don't know of ANY other
organizations that ensure
they are following the SM site Terms of Use and the CC licenses when
posting. I've even seen Creative Commons itself, on it's official
Twitter
and Facebook accounts, posting CC images against
the terms.
James Alexander
User:Jamesofur [Personal capacity, Staff account: Jalexander-WMF]
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Toby Dollmann <toby.dollmann(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> Peter,
>
> You are right.and truly we are spoiled for choice
>
> It is very satisfying to observe that some entries from professional
> photographers are nowadays explicitly stating their CC-BY-SA licences
fo
> rCommons do not enable their copyrighted
works to be uploaded to
Facebook
> (and by implication to similar sites).
>
> eg:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cccefalon/fb
>
> And yet, I see that the Wikimedia volunteers on Facebook blissfully
> uploading "Pictures of the day" ignorant of all the legalese
>
> eg:
>
https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.Commons/posts/1127382660617355:0
>
https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.Commons/posts/1120943991261222:0
>
> Toby
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:52 AM, Peter Southwood <
> peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
> > How can one choose amongst those photos? They are all excellent.
> > Peter
> >
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> > Commons Picture of the Year 2015 round 2 voting has started:
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