John_Cummings added a comment.
I think this would be useful for a number of reasons, I'm basing this on 10 years of working as Wikimedian in Residence for cultural institutions, UN agencies and parts of the EU. The main use case is from my perspective is for any content created by external organisations, which runs to 10s of millions of files on Commons. Many of these organisations share quite extensive metadata with their content way beyond depicts, copyright and author. The main benefits I see are the same as for references on Wikipedia, verifiability and credit. **Wikipedia** Allowing users to know that the metadata comes from an organisation creates a level of trust in the information. I think SDC could be widely used and useful on Wikipedia but without references to provide verifiability it seems unlikely it will get used, in the same way Wikidata data without references are blocked on English Wikipedia infoboxes in a lot of situations. Another benefit for Wikipedia specifically is to make creating Wikipedia articles for things depicted on Commons (eg an object in a museum) easier because the references which are collated in SDC can most probably be reused on Wikipedia. **Organisations sharing content:** Many organisations adopt an open license specifically so they can share it on Wikimedia projects, most of my job in the UN the last 5 years has been around helping orgs adopt open licenses. Generally speaking organisations who share content on Commons want recognition and metrics around page views and a clear delineation between their content and Wikimedia community contributions to avoid confusion from readers. Have references in SDC will give the organisations credit for the metadata they share and reduce concerns about their content being confused with community contributions which may be incorrect. It will also encourage them to start using Wikidata and SDC on their own website eg providing multilingual labels. There's an extra barrier to them adopting open licenses with the CC0 license for SDC statements, generally organisations are willing to share under CC BY or SA for content but CC0 is difficult because is doesn't by its nature give them credit for their content. We get around this with Wikidata because we can say 'there will be references so people can see you added this data'. Generally speaking 'please can you spend a significant amount of time to understand and change your license so you can share your content with us, we won't give you credit for any of it' is really not going to work. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230315 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: John_Cummings Cc: CBogen, Alicia_Fagerving_WMSE, FRomeo_WMF, Fuzheado, GFontenelle_WMF, John_Cummings, Dominicbm, Husky, Spinster, JeanFred, Multichill, Jarekt, valerio.bozzolan, Aklapper, Bugreporter, Invadibot, maantietaja, Mohammed_Sadat_WMDE, Nintendofan885, Akuckartz, Nandana, JKSTNK, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Izno, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Jhernandez, Lydia_Pintscher, Mbch331, bd808
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