You could find candidates in the most popular images and tag them by hand. If it seems /possible/ that the image is affected, it could be faded out. As you say, that might be enough for it to be removed. If it is /likely/ that it is affected, it could be lightboxed or replaced.
Julia Reda, the Pirate in the European Parliament, has a fantastic blog post summary: https://juliareda.eu/2015/06/fop-under-threat/ On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Gergő Tisza <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 5:17 AM, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yes I agree an example of what Wikipedia would look like if this > > regulation passed is an excellent idea. Could we base it on the geo > > tags? > > > > It could be quite hard to figure out what exactly is affected (which is one > of the ways in which this would harm Wikipedia, assuming the change would > be retroactive - and copyright changes usually are - as sifting through all > potentially affected images would be a huge undertaking). For anything > built in the last 150 years, you would have to figure out who designed it > and when that person died. And even if the architect has been dead for more > than 70 years, that still does not necessarily mean the building is not > affected Gustave Eiffel died in 1923, for example, but the Eiffel Tower is > still not free to photograph at night. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/[email protected]> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
