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Commons upload needs better dropdown options for sources
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When currently adding an image to commons, the dropdown options for the image source are missing some obvious options. As Timwi noted in a recent email:

Unfortunately the Upload page only provides the options:

  • made by someone else for use on Wikipedia only
  • made by someone else for non-commercial use only

and both of these options lead to a speedy-deletion warning. The most
OBVIOUS options are missing:

< * made by someone else and licensed as (whatever free/open licence)

  • made by someone else and placed in the public domain

(aside: There should be a separate Component related to how media are uploaded -- there are so many pieces related to this, specifically to how it is used on wikimedia sites, that need fixing! From the need for a better submission process to the need for a better way to identify that an article needs an image, and insert one directly into a point in the article.)


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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:50 PM
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Why is this reported to Bugzilla? Problems on specific projects should be reported to those projects, don’t you think? (In this case, e.g. [[commons:Village pump]].)

And, anyway: I see the following licensing option in the drop-down on Commons:

Not self-made, but has been released under:

  • Creative Commons licenses o cc-by-sa-3.0|Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 o cc-by-sa-2.5|Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 o cc-by-3.0|Attribution 3.0 o cc-by-2.5|Attribution 2.5
  • Free Art License o FAL|Free Art License
  • Flickr photos o subst:template 2|flickrreview|subst:nld|Image from Flickr and I do not know the license o subst:template 2|cc-by-sa-2.0|flickrreview|Uploaded to Flickr under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 o subst:template 2|cc-by-2.0|flickrreview|Uploaded to Flickr under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

(See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses or http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload?uselang=en)

There is no “made by someone else for use on Wikipedia only” on any of our projects whatsoever, AFAICT [http://www.google.com/search?q="made+by+someone+else+for+use+on+wikipedia+only"]. Maybe you could be a bit more specific…?

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Why is this reported to Bugzilla? Problems on specific projects should be
reported to those projects, don’t you think? (In this case, e.g.
[[commons:Village pump]].)

Yup, Bugzilla is for bugs in the software, not in local customizations.