On 12/10/06, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But these are essentially already reviewed! That's
why it appears so
useful to me.
They aren't reviewed however. It takes the flickr page for granted...
better than nothing but still.
The only case this would miss is where the Flickr
uploader has lied and the work is not actually their own (eg they
uploaded all the promo images for their favourite band, and just
happened to set the license as CC-BY for all their files).But I think
only human intervention can avoid these cases and they seem to be
luckily relatively rare, anyway.
It happens.
Also this doesn't address flicker users who have accidentally selected
a free licenses without conscious intent. Such cases are not a release
under a free license.
Also this fails to take the opportunity to invite free content
friendly flickr uploaders to come participate in our community
directly.
These issues could be addressed by coupling the images with a review
process which will have us contact the flickr uploader, as we've
currently been doing for our older flickr images.
[snip]
As Luiz said, we really need to download the original
hi-res version
of images, too.
Yes. Nothing like this should be implemented without support for
grabbing the full image.
Also, it really needs an option to write a filename
in. Flickr
filenames are frequently meaningless. In the same vein, it appears to
silently overwrite existing images of that name (see
http://wikidiy.com/mediawiki-1.8.2/index.php/Image:Punk.jpg ). This is
very, very bad. :)
Good catch.