On 12/12/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
What do you mean it takes it for granted? You mean it assumes the
flickr page is correct? Well... that is all we humans do as well...
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.
I guess people who manually upload Flickr images are not
double-checking the photographer's intent, so I don't know why an
automated process should.
Also this fails to take the opportunity to invite free
content
friendly flickr uploaders to come participate in our community
directly.
As above...it is hard to imagine why a flickr user would stop using
flickr and start using Commons, though. We offer basically no benefits
for them over Flickr, superior species classification is about the
only thing I can think of. Without even using Commons, their images
are already being used in Wikipedia, so why would they switch? ;)
Having said that, it would be cool to extend an invitation, but I
don't think that necessarily has a lot to do with an extension like
this. As you said it's more of a review process.
regards,
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise