[Wikipedia-l] Re: Fair use and inline links

[Anthere]

From: Andre Engels <engels at uni-koblenz.de>

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Anthere wrote:

>> So...Brion...could you please remove the
possibility
>> of making online linking from the international
>> wikipedias please ?
>
>> It is a consensus reached by those who worked
>>clearing
>> up the topic these past 10 days. With no opposing
>> voices. Thanks.

>If you just make them impossible, it would break
quite >a numer of pages.
>So IF you do this, and I do not agree with Anthere
>that the fact that noone said anything means that we
>all agree, then I think it will be
>better to keep the possibility to have this
>inter-Wikipedia, and just
>forbid such links to the outside world.

>Andre Engels

Hi André

Glad you answered :-)
If you do not, how could I know you disagree ? :-)

To the point : you appear to agree with forbidding
links from outside world. Are you aware of some people
disagreeing with this, and if so, for which reasons ?

I agree with you it would be interesting to allow
inwiki linking. Uploading really  is a pain, and that
make sense to share a common resource.

However, our users should be given the copyright
status of the information provided. Text is gfdl.
Images...not always so. They may prefer not to use
fair use images, or cp pictures, with author
permission to wikipedia. The problem of inline
linking, is that the user have no easy access to that
information. He could look for the internet link. See
the image displayed, and now what ? How could he know
how to tweak the link to get to the image description
?

If we keep inwiki linking, the user should have a way
to access the description file of the image. Do you
have a suggestion  to do so ? I myself do not know.

Anthere

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