Actually those uploading images on the Wikimedia Commons FB page are volunteers <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Social_media/Facebook> (I don't think they're all listed there but probably the right place to start), I'd encourage you to talk to them directly if you think there is a problem with their uploads instead of jumping to conclusions and assuming it must be the "evil WMF" doing it and using a great thread like this to try and score some points against them.
For those interested: I know that the verified channels which the Communication team posts on frequently (Especially the Wikimedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> & Wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> twitter and the Wikipedia FB page <https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia>) purposely follow a set of Best Practices <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Best_practices#On_Wikimedia_Foundation_and_Wikipedia_branded_accounts> that include very explictly "Do not post media that is not either owned or co-owned by the Wikimedia Foundation (such as photos we take), in the public domain or licensed under CC0". They do occasionally post other CC images but only after getting explicit approval/permission from the copyright holder including how to attribute etc. On a personal basis I think the inability to post most CC images on SM sites is a massive problem for the licenses as a whole (and for many free licenses). This is not only because SM sites are such a large part of modern life right now (and so we are cutting off an important audience who we WANT using free images rather then repeatedly using more closed copyrighted material, though they are still doing that now ALSO against the SM Terms of Use) but it's also because it's so befuddling to people that they generally ignore it encouraging people to ignore the licenses in general. Not only the general public but those who know the licences well think of them as designed to ALLOW sharing so the idea that they can't share them is shocking to them (so they DO share them). In fact, contrary to your accusation, I don't know of ANY other organizations that ensure they are following the SM site Terms of Use and the CC licenses when posting. I've even seen Creative Commons itself, on it's official Twitter and Facebook accounts, posting CC images against the terms. James Alexander User:Jamesofur [Personal capacity, Staff account: Jalexander-WMF] On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Toby Dollmann <toby.dollm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Peter, > > You are right.and truly we are spoiled for choice > > It is very satisfying to observe that some entries from professional > photographers are nowadays explicitly stating their CC-BY-SA licences fo > rCommons do not enable their copyrighted works to be uploaded to Facebook > (and by implication to similar sites). > > eg: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cccefalon/fb > > And yet, I see that the Wikimedia volunteers on Facebook blissfully > uploading "Pictures of the day" ignorant of all the legalese > > eg: > https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.Commons/posts/1127382660617355:0 > https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.Commons/posts/1120943991261222:0 > > Toby > > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:52 AM, Peter Southwood < > peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > > > How can one choose amongst those photos? They are all excellent. > > Peter > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On > > Behalf Of Pine W > > Sent: Sunday, 15 May 2016 7:21 PM > > To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List; Wikimedia Mailing List > > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Commons Picture of the Year 2015 round 2 voting > has > > started > > > > Commons Picture of the Year 2015 round 2 voting has started: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2015. > > There are many excellent finalists. > > > > Pine > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > ----- > > No virus found in this message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 2016.0.7597 / Virus Database: 4568/12234 - Release Date: > 05/15/16 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
