I've just finished coding up Non-Free Content Bot which spiders Google Images and uploads 10 per second to commons with no license information. I wrote the bot using MediaWiki's turing complete template language. Given that Google Images has 916,000,000 images I anticipate it will take 2.90269084 years to finish.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Al Tally <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all > > I just came across this[1] policy on Commons, which states that from today, > non-free content is going to be allowed to be uploaded on Commons. I'm > rather shocked that this was pushed through without any notice here, or > anywhere, and it has become policy, going against Wikimedia's "free > content" > philosophy. Can people please input on the talk page as soon as possible > please, so we can get this reversed. > > Thanks, > > -- > Alex > (User:Majorly) > > [1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Non-free_content > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
