On 21/11/06, Stan Shebs <stanshebs(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
I also think WP could do more to cynically play on
European chauvinism
than it has so far. 1/2 :-) A public statement by Jimbo, saying
something like "we will not accept unfree ESA images in WP, and while we
don't want WP to present a US-only view of space exploration, it's up to
the Europeans to fix this", would likely get reported widely, and
hopefully put some pressure on ESA to change what is at best a sloppy
practice.
Yes. The reason Wikipedia is full of NASA and CIA World Factbook
images is because those resources are public domain. That's not
US-centrism - it's using images because they are free content. If
there's a problem with not enough ESA images, it's up to the ESA to
fix that; somehow NASA has survived.
I understand this is pretty much what Anthere said to a group of
French government figures - if you want to compete with the flood of
US imagery, make it just as available.
- d.