Michael, I'm afraid you didn't understand the proposal. The proposal has nothing to do whatsoever with people contributing to Commons not being educated about licenses. It's about contacting to people *outside* of Commons, people who may not be involved in any Wikimedia project, and tell them about PD or CC media wrongly tagged with copyright notices *on their own websites* or their accounts on media archives like Flickr.
Please read again if in doubt. Cheers, Jovan Cormac Michael Dale wrote: > I think a small interactive quiz or 30-60 sec videos at point of upload > / contribution.. may help "encourage" people to get informed about these > subjects and properly tag the media. For media pulled from external > archive we should ideally only support importing compatible licensed media > > I don't think there is an issue of lack of quality documentation so much > as reading that documentation is not a literal barrier to contributing. > And possibly as you outline more people reaching out to inform. > > --michael > > Jovan Cormac wrote: > >> I'd like to propose a project I tentatively refer to as "Commons Force" >> (Meta link: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CommonsForce). >> >> Commons Force is a wiki used to coordinate a force of volunteers who >> *actively* educate people about the concepts of public domain and the >> Creative Commons. >> >> That entails those volunteers systematically searching the internet and >> media archives such as Flickr for PD and CC material wrongly labelled as >> being "copyright, all rights reserved" and the likes, and notifying the >> person who wrongly used the label about the problem (using whatever means >> are provided by the site), along with a link to a small wiki designed >> exclusively to educate about PD and CC. >> >> The goal is *not* to threaten those people in any way, and messages sent >> will never contain any threats, whether legal, moral or personal. Rather, >> the project aims to educate the many, many internet users who don't worry >> about rights at all, because they truly don't know jack about them. They >> might know copyright, but overestimate its reach and/or not be aware that >> there are alternatives. When being told about the wide world of rights and >> how copyright alternatives like Creative Commons can promote access to free >> knowledge they might consider re-licensing most or all of their works. >> >> In essence, what's being proposed is a Wiki that acts as a complement to the >> Open-source Ticket Request System on Commons. Instead of receiving license >> information about media on Commons, the idea is to send out license >> information about media on the internet to those whom it concerns. >> >> Since this would obviously promote both the free access to knowledge and >> people's awareness of key open content concepts like PD and CC, the proposal >> is in line with the very heart of Wikimedia's goals. >> >> >> Your opinions & input are more than welcome at the project's discussion >> page, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CommonsForce. >> >> >> Cheers, >> Jovan Cormac >> >> _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
