[Foundation-l] Re: Fair use on English Wikinews

Sun May 15 02:49:49 UTC 2005

Hello,

I have shortly been talking to Amgine on irc about the new policy, as 
well as read it.

This policy seems very reasonable to me. I am happy you found a solution 
to be able to upload images necessary to illustrate wikinews articles... 
all while limiting related risks with competitors. This is good.

I hope other languages will soon follow as well.

Good luck. Anthere

Erik Moeller a écrit:
> I would like to re-enable local uploads on the English Wikinews for the 
> purpose of fair use image uploads only. We have worked in the last few 
> weeks on a whitelist policy for cases where we believe fair use to be 
> acceptable:
> 
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Fair_use
> 
> This includes screenshots, publicity photos explicitly intended for the 
> media, logos, and images under "semi-free" licenses which we might get 
> under a fully free license eventually, but where a breaking news 
> situation requires us to make a temporary compromise.
> 
> This is very important for us; we've already had to delete screenshots 
> that showed a security flaw scooped by Wikinews because they were 
> non-free and therefore not allowed on the Commons.
> 
> For now, there would be two upload links, "Upload media" and "Upload 
> fair use media", one pointing to the Commons, the other to the local 
> upload page. In MediaWiki 1.5, we can point "Upload file" to the 
> Wikimedia Commons, and hide local uploads from the navigation. That way, 
> we can apply "security by obscurity". Only people who read the fair use 
> policy will find the local upload link.
> 
> I'd like to ask the Board to register any objections within the next 
> week or so. If there are none, I would also recommend that the other 
> language editions follow a similar procedure to develop their own local 
> fair use policies, so we can re-enable local uploads on these editions 
> one by one.
> 
> Erik