On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 13:21, Michael Maggs <mich...@maggs.name> wrote: > > Would certainly love them to use more images from Commons. The main barriers > seem to be: > > 1. A perceived lack of legal certainty when using Commons images > > 2. Lack of in house legal expertise leading to an almost paranoid fear of 1. > > 3. Hugely greater time and expertise needed to find, research and download > Commons images, including the requirement to read, understand and accept a > vast variety of complicated tags, templates and scary warnings. > > 4. (Sometimes) past experiences with the Wikimedia communities giving rise to > concerns of bad publicity and reputational risk if they get it ‘wrong’. > > More effort is needed from all of us to tackle those barriers. > > Michael >
And in this case most of the images we do have are US millitary which is not without its own issues. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
