Am 17.09.2011 05:54, schrieb Neil Kandalgaonkar:

> UploadWizard is currently not used by experienced uploaders for a number
> of reasons, among which is that they can't use some custom wikitext
> licenses. We'd like to address that.
>
> I made a mockup of a possible implementation. Comments welcome,
> especially on balancing usability versus convenience here. We already
> have people abusing the {{FAL}} option, and we don't want to make it worse.
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard/CustomWikiTextLicenseFeature
>

Custom Licenses are bad in general. What kind of license would you
expect to be included? We should keep the number of different licenses
as low as possible, since otherwise we loose many possibilities.
Combining a GFDL-image with CC-BY-image is impossible, as long not one
of the images shares one license with the other. The more licenses we
allow, the more difficult will be the reusing. (A book with 50 license
texts in the appendix?)

Some users use custom templates for the usual licenses. One might ask if
this is necessary. Bots  aren't really happy about it, re-users also
have it difficult trough different formating, etc.

If you include whits as a feature, then make sure to leave a notice that
it is not meant to write your own custom licenses.

Greetings Tobias

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