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

Fri Mar 25 19:22:33 UTC 2005

Can you gently write them on the topic then ?

Ant

Christiaan Briggs a écrit:
> That they follow conditions of licence. It's up to them how they achieve 
> that isn't it?
> 
> Christiaan
> 
> On 25 Mar 2005, at 5:57 pm, Anthere wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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