On Nov 1, 2006, at 6:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > On 11/1/06, Stefan Sels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I have some articles I setup on wikipedia that contain images. I >> stored >> these images on wikimedia commons. >> >> As their might be a citizendium within another language it might be >> usefull to store images within a system like wikimedia commons. >> >> Are there any plans or concept to store and categorize images (not >> just >> uploading them to mediawiki) ? > > Hi guys, > > while WP and Citizendium are philosophically very different, I > personally see no reason not to cooperate on multimedia content such > as images. A while ago I drafted the specs for a MediaWiki feature > that would allow any MediaWiki installation to use files from > Wikimedia Commons: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/InstantCommons > > This feature is now being implemented by a software development > company in Ghana and we expect to have the first prototype ready to > show within the next 14 days. Enabled on Citizendium (if it uses > MediaWiki), it would make it possible to use any Commons image like a > local image. > > Mind you, Wikimedia Commons has a very rigid policy to only allow > freely licensed content -- we do not permit licenses such as CC-BY-NC > (noncommercial use only), for instance. If Citizendium wants to permit > such licenses, it might make sense to set up a separate "commons" for > it. This can be done relatively easily - it's a flip in the MediaWiki > configuration called $wgUseSharedUploads and some associated settings. >
Good to see you here Erik. Actually when this came up this morning I was going to suggest that linking us up with Commons is a good idea. I always enjoyed working on Commons, found we did not have the trolling and other problems that WP had. The rules were stringent and clear cut and that's the way it was. I think all the content there is exceptional for our use and that we should either mirror it or use it regularly. --Guy Finley User: W Guy Finley _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
