[WikiEN-l] Re: Images on Answers.com and copyright conditions

Fri Mar 25 17:16:26 UTC 2005

I think I have an idea of where this problem stems from; when you click 
on an image in Wikipedia which was originally uploaded to Wikimedia 
Commons the description (including who the author is) is not included 
on the Wikipedia page for that image (only a link its page on Wikimedia 
Commons is included). I would say Answers.com is simply pulling down 
the content from Wikipedia (and ignoring the link to the Commons page).

At the moment Wikipedia image pages only include a link to the 
corresponding Wikimedia Commons page. I'm not sure what the technical 
issues are here but it seems to me when a user clicks on an image in 
Wikipedia the description of the image should be on that page. A couple 
of ways of achieving this might be to link directly to the image on 
Wikimedia Commons or to somehow import the text from Wikimedia Commons 
onto the Wikipedia page. I'm sure there are probably problems 
associated with these, otherwise I imagine we'd be doing it already.

Christiaan

Anthere wrote:

> I think you are correct that there is possibly a problem as no where 
> is the author of the picture mentionned, nor a link available.
>
> We should mention this to Jimbo
>
> Ant
>
> MacGyverMagic/Mgm a écrit:
>>> Is anyone else surprised that Answers.com doesn't seem to follow GFDL
>>> or CCbySA conditions with regard to images used from Wikipedia, such 
>>> as
>>> crediting authors:
>>>
>>> http://www.answers.com/library/Wikipedia+Images
>>>
>>> Or am I misunderstanding the process?
>>>
>>> Christiaan
>> Well, I could be misunderstanding the process myself, but aren't they
>> following GFDL by telling us it's a Wikipedia article to start with?
>> Mgm