Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:06:14 UTC
During uploading files to Wikimedia Commons, license tags are now automatically, defaultly placed under the {{Information}} box, its "permission" field is filled in with "See below." That is not only unnoticed and unsightly: in fact the parameter "permission" isn't used at all, could be removed. The upload script should be corrected so as it placed the license tags as parameters of the template {{Information}}: Not (now default): ****************************** == Summary == {{Information |Description = Description |Source = {{own}} |Date = 2010-01-08 |Author = Author |Permission = |other_versions = }} [[Category:Category]] == Licensing == {{self|cc-by-sa-3.0}} ****************************** But: ****************************** {{Information |Description = Description |Source = {{own}} |Date = 2010-01-08 |Author = Author |Permission = {{self|cc-by-sa-3.0}} |other_versions = }} [[Category:Category]] ******************************
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&oldid=17978906#.7B.7BInformation.7D.7D_.E2.80.93_.E2.80.9CPermission.E2.80.9D_field
Permission != license. The permission field is for OTRS ticket or similar, the license templates are sometimes quite extensive and should stay in a separate section like now. All new extensions (Upload wizard, Add Media Wizard) do it the same way. IMO the "see below" text is superfluous and could be suppressed in the output. This is something to be done in Commons, but not in code.
