Hello Wikipedians! I would like to know opinions of others and, if possible and appropriate, also official opinion of Wikimedia Foundation on following:
As you probably know, some Wikipedias provide fair-use content (as en) which is not allowed in some other Wikipedias because they want to satisfy also local laws not allowing fair-use, not just laws of the USA. Because of that a lot of articles in these Wikipedias do not contain certain images used in en as fair-use. Is it correct to provide direct inline (inside the text of the article or infobox) iterwiki links to these images (and generally files)? For example: [[:en:File:Metallica and justice for all a.jpg|Image in English Wikipedia]]. Is it something what should be avoided because it can potentially violate the law or our license? I should probably state my opinion too, to be fair and honest: Yes, I feel it is potentially dangerous and we should avoid it. I would like to know, if there is a reason to spend time and energy on advocating this opinion. Thank you, Jiri Hofman PS: Sorry, if this arrived twice, no intention to spam, only forgotten registration confirmation. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
