Last modified: 2010-01-22 19:11:47 UTC
It seems to me that a bit of SINGLE, TEXT-BASED information needs to be provided on the page with each WikiMedia item so that someone can EASILY CITE everything relevant about the work (i.e., be able to just copy & paste a single block of text to, e.g., paste into a field of the EXIF header of images that are repurposed). For example, instead of the generic "I, the copyright holder...this work...", it should say "I, John Doe (my@email.address), the copyright holder of the work represented at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Haleakalasilversword.jpg, on 20 January 2010 hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law." At this point (unless I'm missing something [in which case, please, someone, fill me in!), it's very cumbersome to try to collect all the info in order to adequately cite an image(/etc.)--and it seems that this should not be the case. Any chance this could be addressed...????
This is not a technical issue (it is outside of the scope of bugzilla). The commons project decides what is in their license tags (assuming you're referring to images/videos). Bring it up at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump Closing as invalid
Thanks, Bawolff, for the info. I'll post it there. (Had already posted it at a wikimedia discussion page RE: wikimedia policies and they suggested that I post it on bugzilla. I hadn't seen the site you mentioned. Quite confusing, really, to figure out the correct place to put stuff like this. "Village pump," while a "cute" name, is not particularly intuitive....) Aloha, -pt
