On 23 July 2010 18:47, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
First of all, the upload form should not be a venue for educating people on
copyright and free licenses. As painful as it may be, we need to abandon our
maternal instincts and assume that the uploader knows what they're doing
On 7/21/10 6:50 PM, Gnangarra wrote:
While default license is a good idea we need to remember that the
uploaders are making a choice to release their work
With that they should be making the choice and not having us(some
automated process) do it for them
The discussion was about letting
Gnangarra wrote:
Admins have always look unfavourably at deletion request because the
loader says they didnt intend releasing the work for commercial use or
thought they were only releasing for educational use or some other
reason, we can do that because the person made the choice with each
LIcensing is a legal contract between the author, wikimedia and any reusers
we should be ensuring the integrity of the authors choice in the matter
especially since we are effectively requiring the author to abandon their
rights altogether.
From what I've just read this is going ahead
Op 21-7-2010 4:48, Neil Kandalgaonkar schreef:
On 7/20/10 7:28 PM, Stephen Bain wrote:
Perhaps a checkbox could be displayed when the licence field is filled
with the default preference but the user inputs something else, asking
if they would like to update their preference?
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org wrote:
For the new uploader I'm working on[1], we want it to remember your
previous preferences about what license to use and maybe a few other things.
..
[1] http://commons.prototype.wikimedia.org/ -- this is JUST a
For the new uploader I'm working on[1], we want it to remember your
previous preferences about what license to use and maybe a few other things.
Here's what I'm thinking about:
- We add a new preference for preferred license.
- If present, this prefills the upload form with a license.
-
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org wrote:
For the new uploader I'm working on[1], we want it to remember your
previous preferences about what license to use and maybe a few other things.
Here's what I'm thinking about:
- We add a new preference for
On 07/21/2010 12:31 AM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote:
For the new uploader I'm working on[1], we want it to remember your
previous preferences about what license to use and maybe a few other things.
Here's what I'm thinking about:
- We add a new preference for preferred license.
- If
