LIcensing is a legal contract between the author, wikimedia and any reusers
we should be ensuring the integrity of the authors choice in the matter
especially since we are effectively requiring the author to abandon their
rights altogether.
From what I've just read this is going ahead
irreguardless in that case I
think that there should be at the very least a
barrier/flag before its
usable like rollback, file mover and handful of other
functions<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights>w…
by an editor requests the function then an admin can assign it to
them. That at least gives an opportunity for a review and an attempt at
ensuring that the user at least understands what they are doing. It also
gives us a time stamp/ip/username which we can point to that the user
accepted/acknowledged that they are agreeing to an automated licensing
process and accept responsibility for the end result.
A bookmark list of the users common licensing choices would be a useful
function to include because very few users only contribute one type of
image, personally I have 3 types that I'd use frequently primarily CC-by(own
photographs) also PD(self made maps), and PD-Aust(old photographs from
Australia)
On 23 July 2010 02:55, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Gnangarra wrote:
Admins have always look unfavourably at deletion
request because the
loader says they didnt intend releasing the work for commercial use or
thought they were only releasing for educational use or some other
reason, we can do that because the person made the choice with each and
every upload not us. Automatically prefilling the upload form with a
license removes the choice/decision to over come that we would then need
an alternative check box for the uploader to acknowledge that they
understand the rights they are releasing.
We need people to freely release media, we need them to do in such away
that we can be confident that what ever licensing the uploader chooses
it is them making the choice not us.
What about offering a "bookmark" of licenses? So you could save the 2-3
licenses you tend to use, and still need a click to apply them to the
upload.
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