And as a note - when you review the content that users are uploading using
Bryan's bot, the MAJORITY of it is educational content. Nothing
"questionable" or too contorversial.

It seems the biggest problems come from a freedom of panorama, nudity/porn,
and celebrity images uploaded to Flickr with incorrect permissions/not the
users work/copyright infringement/blahbalhblah. It does appear that there
are some users that just upload every bit of free content they can find
outside of family photos.

Like Commons, anyone can upload it, but, unlike Commons, no one on Flickr
reviews content for appropriateness and copyright correctness.  I suppose we
are one step ahead, it's just irritating when you come across an image's
source and this is what you get:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22186088@N03/4038072177/

Sarah


On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Chris Keating
<chriskeatingw...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
>> > Especially when the images are scraped off the CC-BY and CC-BY-SA Flickr
>> > streams.
>> >
>> That was something I noticed the other day. An anon replaced the
>> infobox image on Veganism with a close-up shot of a woman's genitals
>> and a vibrator. I looked to see who had uploaded it and it said Flickr
>> upload bot. So is there a bot that uploads all cc images from Flickr
>> indiscriminately?
>>
>>
> Apparently a bot does the work, but a human has to ask for them.
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Flickr_upload_bot
>
> Chris
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