Sascha Noyes wrote: I don't agree with the statement image are "language independent". All the schema, map, etc are language dependant. As soon as you have text (whatever letter or number) in an image, it becomes a language dependant image. Moreover can you tell us why the description of the image should contain the copyright notice in english? If we have the same image for multiple wiki, this image should contain the copyright statement in all the language as you cannot expect everyone to understand english, and then the description will be not very readable. People should take care when they import an image from another wikipedia to translate the copyright statement and not only say: this image is ok it comes from kw: !

On Monday 13 October 2003 04:53 pm, Arnaud G wrote: Your assessment that there are both language dependent and independent pictures is correct. This does however not address the issue that in the language independent pictures there will be massive duplication between different languages. At the moment this is not that much of a problem, with the wikipedia still being pretty small, and harddrive space being cheap. In the long run however this will have to be solved. I can only think of two possible solutions: 1) Keep language dependent and independent pictures strictly appart. The independent ones are in a central repository, while the each language has a repository for the dependent ones. 2) Keep them together but make a strict rule that all language dependent pictures must end in a language code. eg: wikilogo.en.jpg wikilogo.fr.jpg wikilogo.simple.jpg using the already established codes for the different languages. I personally prefer #2 more, but am obviously open to better solutions. I never said that. All I said is that images on the english wikipedia need to have an english copyright info description. It does not suffice to say that the image was copied from another language wikipedia in order to constitute a copyright info description. Which is the case with the example from the korean wikipedia that I named. Of course each different language should have its native copyright info description. Best, Sascha Noyes (in wikiland: snoyes)