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----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <common...@lists.wikimedia.org>; "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 9:22 PM Subject: [Foundation-l] Problems using pictures from Commons in Blogger - making it more of a stock photo repository > Hoi, > Blogger is the platform I use now for many years to blog about the > subjects > that are important in my appreciation of a Wiki world. At first I did not > illustrate my blogposts but thanks to Pfctdayelise I started to pepper my > blog posts with illustrations. > > At this moment it is no longer possible for me to upload pictures to > blogger. The message that I get is that I have to ensure that I have a > license for the pictures that I upload. This is true for pictures that I > have downloaded from Commons and cropped, it is for screen shots of the > interaction with the Blogger user interface.. > > It is possible for me to get pictures displayed when I refer to the upload > page of a Commons picture but that does me no good when it is a svg > picture. > Obviously I can download the picture and save it as an png ... but that > does > me no good. > > There are several "solutions" to this problem. I can upload the png, I can > use Wordpress instead. The obvious solution is for Google to get its act > together. > > The solution that I like best is for Commons to become a true repository > of > images that is not only intended for the illustration of Wikipedia and its > sister projects but also for the illustration of blogs like mine. Commons > is > my first choice for illustrations for my blog but for some topics it just > does not provide me with the illustration that I am looking for. > > I think that Commons has already many images that are usable, what would > be > needed is just a different kind of pictures or more pictures that are > grouped by subject and easier to find. > Thanks, > GerardM > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Farsi.svg The svg I would like to use as > a > png > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/08/big-boost-for-mediawiki-localisation-in.htmlthe > blog post that needs an illustration > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l