On 13 March 2011 18:55, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> wrote:
> > > Given that the only Wikipedia in existence is the English Wikipedia, > that > > is. > > > > Hans Rosbach > > > > I am not sure what you mean by this statement. Could you please explain? > > The English Wikipedia has a fair use policy, I know of no other Wikipedia that has one. The statement "We can claim fair use when using images like that on Wikipedia" is correct for English Wikipedia, but not for the other Wikipedias. For all those that use Commons for all pictures, the FOP policy has to be the same as on Commons. The upside of that is that all content is reusable for users, including images. The downside is obviously that non-FOP areas have limits on availability of images. The downside of the fair use policy on English Wikipedia is that the incentive to donate free images is little. The most visible Wikipedia already have pictures, asking for free images for Wikipedia thus gets harder. Solidarity from the English Wikipedia would in the short term mean less illustrations in the most visible page on the search results, but I believe in the long term it would lead to more donations of free images. Hans A Rosbach _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
