2014-09-13 23:53 GMT+02:00 James Heald <[email protected]>: > Yes. > > Just to be clear, if we did "converge all the images to live in one > place", I am not suggesting they would all be free, and I'm not suggesting > they would all belong to Commons. > > Just that they would all physically live in the same integrated structure; > but one that would still appear to the external browser to have different > 'partitions', corresponding to the different language wikis, each with a > different base url. > > (But inside the server all part of one integrated system, making it easy > to move a file from a national partition to the Commons partition, or > vice-versa -- *if* that was legally appropriate). > > -- James.
If I can dream, I would say that we should only have Commons as file storage. All "local" exceptions would need to be deleted. Today I suspect that some users unknowingly makes copyright infringments because that we do allow "local" uploads. For example, if a Swede in Sweden would upload an image to enwp claiming American fair use it would probably not be okay since we do not have a similar law in Sweden (and since around 40% of the traffic from Sweden goes to enwp, Swedes would be expected as an audience). But I realize I am in a minority here and will not pursue this further (but would cheer if WMF legal would). /Jan
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