Tomasz Wegrzanowski <taw(a)users.sf.net> writes:
Create
nonfree.en.wikipedia.org and
free.en.wikipedia.org (only fair. This
goes for other languages as well) Then,
en.wikipedia.org (or whichever
language) contains all the non-contentious articles (in the sense of
containing Fair Use materials). Contentious articles merely contain the text
#FREEDIRECT [[Article name]]
and the user is then served with the page from one of free. / nonfree.
according to a user preference, stored in a cookie[0], and when the French
block nonfree[1], they can still read the other version...
And if we get a takedown notice for a given image, take it down.
We're no better off if we take them all down now.
Wikipedia is NOT an US project.
I didn't say that it was. I said it was US based. Which it evidently is.
[0] The default will be
nonfree.wikipedia.org, naturally.
(based on the completely-made-up-statistic that the number of users
[as opposed to contributors] who care deeply and passionately about
big-F-Freedom are outnumbered by those of us who couldn't give a toss)
[1] I find it hilarious that it was suggested (seemingly with a straight face)
that major European governments would attempt to censor their internet over
Fair Use violations, and that we should act now to address this concern.
--
Gareth Owen
"The best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity"
-- W. B. Yeats forsees the standard of debate on wikipedia-l