On 25 August 2014 03:57, Mark <delir...@hackish.org> wrote:

> On 8/24/14, 7:03 PM, Jeevan Jose wrote:
>
>> Try to "download as PDF" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheetah
>>
>> Check Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors.
>>
>> It attributes File:Cheetah Feb09 02.jpg Source:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Cheetah_Feb09_02.jpg
>> License: unknown Contributors: Fir0002, Peteforsyth
>>
>> This is very wrong as license is not fetched  and photographer is only
>> Fir;
>> not all people edited that "file" page.
>>
>> I raised this complaint earlier (in Commons). This is mentioned at EN too
>> by Stefan:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Copying_within_
>> Wikipedia#For_legal_team_review
>>
>
> Fwiw, a new PDF exporter is being tested, and looks like it'll be deployed
> soon: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PDF_rendering
>
> It might be worth checking (I have not) what attribution is done in the
> new exporter. If it's better, then the right fix would be to just deploy
> the new exporter ASAP.
>
> Best,
> Mark


I don't know, it seems to me that deploying new software ASAP before it has
been exhaustively tested by the end user base has caused a few headaches
lately ;-).

Cheers,
Craig
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