Another suggestion would be to run all new uploads through Tineye straight away; and if they have significant or suspicious hits put it up for review.
Tom On 9 April 2012 18:40, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9 April 2012 18:24, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'd go for an automatic bot / server process messaging them on flickr > > thanking for posting the photo with a free license and how they can be > > used now on Wikimedia Commons. > > That won't obviously avoid blatnant flickrwashing, but if the license > > was indeed wrongly set, any issues should arise soon enough, when it > > isn't so bad to "lose" the images. > > This is an excellent suggestion - it solves several issues at once. > > As well as people who've set the "wrong" license ( = they probably > didn't think it through) being able to fix it, it means that we do the > nice and polite thing of actually telling people that their work was > appreciated, that we're wanting to use it, etc. People like being told > their images are being reused - I know that when someone left me a > note on flickr to say that they'd copied my pictures to Commons, I was > quite excited even when I had a vague feeling I should have uploaded > them myself :-) > > And, of course, it promotes Commons to photographers... > > -- > - Andrew Gray > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >
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