On 11 March 2016 at 11:35, Adam Baso <ab...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi there - speaking to one thing I'm familiar with, with respect to image > selection, we believe https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124225 should > address fair use ("non-free") images, although page reparses will happen > gradually (pages are cached for up to 30 days or so). >
Indeed. I manually triggered a reparse on a page which I knew had a non-free page image (by adding a space <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mario&diff=prev&oldid=709579986> to a part of the page where it didn't affect the layout), and the page image was recalculated and is now a free image. Working as intended! :-) In reply to Geni's query, it is important to point out, however, that the English Wikipedia guidelines on non-free content <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content> includes a list of exemptions <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content#Exemptions> which explicitly allows non-free content to be surfaced in search results without accompanying fair use rationales. Additionally, English Wikipedia policy is not applicable on a global page such as wikipedia.org. Therefore, the portal was never actually in violation of any policy. Regardless, as Adam noted, for other reasons where this policy *did* apply, T124225 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124225> was enacted which prevents non-free images from appearing as thumbnails in search results. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
