https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29708
Neil Kandalgaonkar <ne...@wikimedia.org> changed:
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--- Comment #4 from Neil Kandalgaonkar <ne...@wikimedia.org> 2011-07-06
15:15:41 UTC ---
I believe you are in the wrong place to debate this. As I understand it,
Bugzilla is for identifiable, technical flaws with our software. Even if
sometimes people debate such things here, this is the wrong forum.
Now, even if you were right, I don't agree that any action is required.
Our software, unfortunately, conflates heading, title, URL, filename, and
unique ID, all into one identifier, which I will call the "MediaWiki Title".
Sometimes we have to do various things to the title to make it all work. For
instance, consider the famous "Migrant Mother" image.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrant_Mother). On Commons, it has the MediaWiki
title "File:Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg".
There has never been any suggestion on Commons or any other Wikimedia site that
the "MediaWiki Title" is the title that the author gave to the work, nor are we
asserting that others should refer to the work in that way. This is just an
identifier for software primarily, and humans secondarily. And in this case,
"Migrant Mother" is not even the real title of the work, it's just the commonly
known name. The official title is "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother
of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California."
Finally all works within Wikimedia Commons have to be licensed in such a way as
to allow for derivative works, which would explicitly include retitling the
work. If you believe that certain individual Wikipedias should still change
their policies about their fair-use images, perhaps you should take it up with
them.
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