Lily, 09/10/2017 01:37:
* Our friends at Flickr worked hard to communicate with those who
uploaded the photos that the licenses of the photos should match
certain license requirements. It is not clear to us at this point why
more photographers didn't decide to switch their licenses. There can
be many reasons for this and we want to learn more about them. (We are
looking forward to work with the Flickr team to collect some
information about this.)
It's a remarkable development to have Flickr itself communicate directly
with Flickr users about free licenses. Once they are comfortable with
the method, we could use some more communication of this kind, e.g. to
users who selected unfree licenses or authors of photos automatically
determined to be about some subject without a photo on Commons.
Wikimedia users have cooperated a lot with Flickr users and we have some
model letters:
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickr_files/Appeal_for_license_change
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Russavia/Flickr-letter
Notice how the Italian language letter (which I often use) contains a
link to Yahoo Answer, where we posted a tutorial on how to find the
relevant buttons etc.: we could not find one on Flickr itself. Licenses
on indidual photos are very well hidden since the 2013 redesign:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2013-May/006840.html .
So it will be nice to see if Flickr staff encounters the same issues we
had and figures out how to solve them (possibly in a way we have not
even anticipated).
Nemo
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