On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Erik Moeller, 21/05/2013 19:40: > >> Here's one of many overviews of Flickr's redesign: >> >> http://www.pocket-lint.com/**news/121165-old-flickr-vs-new-** >> flickr-what-s-new<http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/121165-old-flickr-vs-new-flickr-what-s-new> >> >> Next time you feel that Wikimedia's community is particularly change >> averse, take a spin through the comments here. :-) >> >> http://www.flickr.com/help/**forum/en-us/72157633547442506/<http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633547442506/> >> > > AFAICS, they also: > 1) collapsed the button that allows you to set the license of an image of > yours, which is now hidden below a "more" link in the metadata section that > was moved outside the screen (or did this happen before? certainly after > 2010) ; > 2) removed any UI path to the advanced search and to the search for > free/CC images, so that now you can find them only on the advanced search, > by knowing its URL: > http://www.flickr.com/search/**advanced/<http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/>; > 3) less importantly, hid under that mysterious triple-ball "ellipsis" > button the option to find high resolution versions of the image, consistent > with a similar regression in the interface of Google Plus compared to > PicasaWeb. > I found also some bugs, at least for Linux, which make (2) worse. > > So, what's the future of CC on Flickr? > http://www.flickr.com/**creativecommons/<http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/>shows > only 260M CC images: there were already 220M in 2011 if I read news > correctly; only 60M are free. 75 % of the times I ask a user to put an > image under cc-by-sa they choose -nc-nd because "it was the first option" > (and some of course "what, isn't Wikipedia non-commercial?!). > Is this the price to pay to Instagram, Tumblr and Facebook? There are already lots of problems with Facebook (and various other social networks) and free licenses. See this analysis here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/CC-BY-SA_on_Facebook > Will the unusable&pretty-fication help bring more people to an environment > where they may meet free knowledge, or will free knowledge just be > sacrificed? It's unclear to me what's going on. > > Nemo > > ______________________________**_________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/commons-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l> > -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *http://blog.wikimedia.org/*
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