I think a small interactive quiz or 30-60 sec videos at point of upload / contribution.. may help "encourage" people to get informed about these subjects and properly tag the media. For media pulled from external archive we should ideally only support importing compatible licensed media
I don't think there is an issue of lack of quality documentation so much as reading that documentation is not a literal barrier to contributing. And possibly as you outline more people reaching out to inform. --michael Jovan Cormac wrote: > I'd like to propose a project I tentatively refer to as "Commons Force" (Meta > link: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CommonsForce). > > Commons Force is a wiki used to coordinate a force of volunteers who > *actively* educate people about the concepts of public domain and the > Creative Commons. > > That entails those volunteers systematically searching the internet and media > archives such as Flickr for PD and CC material wrongly labelled as being > "copyright, all rights reserved" and the likes, and notifying the person who > wrongly used the label about the problem (using whatever means are provided > by the site), along with a link to a small wiki designed exclusively to > educate about PD and CC. > > The goal is *not* to threaten those people in any way, and messages sent will > never contain any threats, whether legal, moral or personal. Rather, the > project aims to educate the many, many internet users who don't worry about > rights at all, because they truly don't know jack about them. They might know > copyright, but overestimate its reach and/or not be aware that there are > alternatives. When being told about the wide world of rights and how > copyright alternatives like Creative Commons can promote access to free > knowledge they might consider re-licensing most or all of their works. > > In essence, what's being proposed is a Wiki that acts as a complement to the > Open-source Ticket Request System on Commons. Instead of receiving license > information about media on Commons, the idea is to send out license > information about media on the internet to those whom it concerns. > > Since this would obviously promote both the free access to knowledge and > people's awareness of key open content concepts like PD and CC, the proposal > is in line with the very heart of Wikimedia's goals. > > > Your opinions & input are more than welcome at the project's discussion page, > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CommonsForce. > > > Cheers, > Jovan Cormac > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
