Re: [Wikimedia-l] Media handling is difficult
With regard to uploads from mobiles, there have been several positive discussions on the Commons village pump when mobile applications encouraged uploads.[1] It is still the case that the significant majority of images uploaded from mobile platforms have to be deleted as either out of scope (like bad blurry selfies) or obvious copyright violations. We even have some bot-categorization of deletions quietly going on to keep a running track of it, and several past experiments to find ways of managing copyvios automatically, shortly after they appear in recent uploads.[2] As tablets with good cameras and more sophisticated mobiles are used to do more stuff on Wikimedia projects, the trend is improving, but the design challenge remains that mobile apps to which make upload easier need to also encourage upload 'qualification' to reduce the burden on volunteer administrators to do endless housekeeping, and mobile users need coaching/coaxing to consider copyright and educational value before launching their selfies and lolcats on Commons. :-) Links: 1. Sample past VP discussion: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2013/04#Mobile_Web_Uploads_turned_off_in_stable, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2013/04#Proposed_.27rule_of_thumb.27_for_deletion_of_mobile-appweb_sourced_images 2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MobileUpload-related_deletion_requests Fae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does Foundation have 3rd party standing against Harald Bischoff?
Am 31.07.2015 um 19:34 schrieb rupert THURNER: independent of this case, is there a technical possibility to put amateur reusers in future on a safe ground. The only foolproof licence is CC0, which gives away all rights to the user and keeps almost nothing for the author himself. But CC0 neither is a CopyLeft licence that perpetually secures the freedom of this content (Everybody can take CC0 staff and publish it in a proprietary way wit no attribution what-so-ever), nor is it a good argument to convince professional or semi-professional contributors to publish there quality work under. Hence CC0 is more a problem than a solution. Beside that, I don't think that it is our prior duty to offer save ground to any kind of reusers. A lot of licence violators honestly don't give a shit about free content. They just don't care about copyrights and have no respect to the author, who created the stuff they are using in the first place. I definitely don't want to support that. By automatically adding author and license info into the metadata of the image. If this is not enough attribution we should strive to have this kind of attribution accepted in a future version cc license. An attribution only inside the metadata is not compatible with the licence's requirements, mainly because it can't be read in every browser without any add-ons and digital forensic skills. The CC-licences require the attributions to be at least as prominent as the credits for the other contributing author. Furthermore a lot of CMS remove such metadata automatically while scaling and recompressing images. Without the need of education. Education is the only promising approach to prohibit license and copyright violations. We need to teach people, that our content is not free as in free beer but free as in freedom and that freedom comes with responsibility. Namely the responsibility to give reasonable credit to the author of the work (you want to use) and reference the license (that allows you to use it). It is neither possible nor desirable to take that responsibility from the users. // Martin ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
