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

Fri Mar 25 17:57:41 UTC 2005

Nod.
This is probably the key of the problem.
Well, the fact the description is missing from all pictures used by 
wikicommons (we do not really respect our own licence...) has already 
been raised many times unfortunately.

It is certainly an issue to fix in the future.

Meanwhile, what can we propose to Answers ?

Ant

Christiaan Briggs a écrit:
> 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
>>