Re: [WikiEN-l] Our Pokémon gallery

Sat Jan 28 04:24:17 UTC 2006

They aren't "galleries" -- they are small thumbnails which are a
product of being able to sort the images.

I added a modified fair use template to the top of the category page
which explains the copyrighted status of all of the images. We could
play with something like this -- a big notice which says that this is
a category of thumbnails for images which are used in Wikipedia
articles etc. etc. Anyway it is an idea.

If we are going to have fair use images (which it seems we are), we
can't not have categories for them, because it would make identifying,
sorting, keeping track of, etc. impossible, which would create an even
worse legal problem (not being at all aware of what we have, how many
we have, being able to monitor them) than having the category
thumbnails would, in my opinion.

FF

On 1/27/06, Haukur Þorgeirsson <haukurth at hi.is> wrote:
> > Look at this yummy gallery of 200 copyrighted images:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pok%C3%A9mon_images
>
> And I know this isn't anything new, we've been talking about this problem
> for a long time. So is anyone working on a technical solution?
>
> I mean, it's not like these galleries are hidden to the reader or even
> hard to find. Go to [[Pikachu]], click on the image and then click on
> [[Pokémon images]] - a very natural thing to do.
>
> Better still - do a straight Google search for "Pokémon images". Our
> gallery is the second hit. I repeat - if you're searching for Pokémon
> images on Google you'll find that Wikipedia has a very nice gallery of
> them.
>
> We're seeing revert wars and blocks over fair use images on user pages. I
> assert that our fair use galleries are a bigger problem.
>
> Regards,
> Haukur
>
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