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
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