On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Durova<[email protected]> wrote: > You might be surprised. The biggest obstacle is that most of the people who > own copyrights simply don't understand wikis and free culture. They're used > to thinking in terms of reproduction permission, which presupposes an older > type of static publication. That can change; what we need to do is > communicate while we have the public's attention. > > Fortunately many copyrights have almost zero commercial value. When > individuals hold those copyrights they often regard it as flattering that a > site such as Wikipedia could use them. Think of it in terms of someone > whose aunt was an Olympic bronze medalist decades ago: photographs of her > would be treasured within the family, but elsewhere she's just a name on a > long list of athletes. > > The default action that people take when they discover Wikipedia would > publish their photos is to offer permission. When we try to answer 'that > doesn't work, you need to go to OTRS and...' nine times out of ten their > eyes glaze over and they wander away. They simply don't comprehend. We > need to stop being defeatist and get serious about commuincating on a > broader scale that yes, these things are possible. The solutions are > simple, but they require a paradigm shift.
Some time ago, I had started implementing a way for people to mail pictures in. These would then end in a staging area on the toolserver, and wiki(p|m)edians could then ask back for more information (e.g. description), or push them through to Commons. The mails would be stored on the toolserver as a papertrail. However, I was told that this would interfere with/duplicate effort of OTRS, so I stopped. Magnus _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
