2012/7/21 Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com>: > On 21/07/12 14:33, Strainu wrote: >>> Create jail.wikimedia.org ? >> >> Creating it under the WMF umbrella is unlikely, as the WMF only >> supports free content. >> >> However, I have been thinking for a while about creating a NC image >> wiki, as most countries allow non-commercial use of such images. If I >> has the slightest sign that the WMF would approve of its use as 3rd >> party image source in Wikipedias, I would start the project tomorrow. >> >> Strainu > > I'm unsure about that. If wikipedias were going to use it, the WMF would > probably want to host a local mirror anyway.
And hence my doubt over the actual approval of such a project. It could be worth bringing it up in another forum, though, I'm just not sure where. > > Each interested wikipedia would have to approve a nonfree use rationale > guideline, which allowed them to use a subset of that wiki files (eg. > those which are free on their countries but not on US). With regards to FOP, at least for buildings, it would be the other way around: free in the US and non-free in their country. That will probably make it somewhat more acceptable to the legal department > It would also be a very appropiate solution for the troubles generated > by the URAA producing retroactive copyright. > > For using those PD-Non-US images, I guess WMF would still require a Fair > Use rationale for each of the used images, maybe some general «low-res > usage in educational articles» (ie. main-ns) could pass, I'm not sure. > > Also see > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/Commons_Abroad_and_related_ideas Nice, I didn't know about it. It's curious that this RFC is somewhat the opposite of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Disable_local_uploads_on_smaller_wikis Strainu _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org