[Phpwiki-talk] Re: Question: Art Recipes Wiki

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Hi,
The support email address is php...@li....

Some questions:
You want a technical solution to prevent linking to photos with a
commercial license?
You want a technical solution to prevent linking to photos with a
non-commercial license?
You don't care about links to photos, regardless which license they have.

Background:
phpwiki has no technical solution (yet) to filter out any external
links. content in wikis is mainly filtered out by humans, not by
technical solutions.
you can ask us for technical solutions, not for policies within your
wiki visitors
and editors.

we don't care at all about any license restrictions in the content of
your wiki,
if commercial or non-commercial. you can choose whatever license you
want for your content. just if you enhance your/our software (id est
"a technical solution") we and any other user of your software would
like to get the source of your enhancements.
The phpwiki software is GNU licensed.

if you have a closed usergroup, only this closed usergroup must be
allowed to get the source for your technical solutions of the above
mentioned problems. (link filter by license).

more see below.

2006/3/27, York Date <ma...@yo...>:
> Nice to meet you. We are York Date and Hiroshi Nishimura.
>
> Now we are using Wikia to do an online art project named Art Recipes.
>
> http://artrecipes.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

I see. mediawiki

> But unfortunately, one of admins of Wikia asked us to use restraint in
> putting a non-commercial only license photos to Wiki because Wikia is a
> commercial company. It is the problem for us.

I see. Tell him that this is technically almost not possible.
anybody can link to anythink.

BTW: strange policy. if wikia is a commercial company why do they want
only restricted photos? anybody must follow copyrights. regardless if
private or commercial content providers. within companies it would be
much would easier to publish commercial material than for
non-commercial publishers. hmm.

you can restrict user access.
then only a certain group of users may edit the content and add for
example links to external photos. those users can sign a
paper/contract/signin confirmation
that they will link only to non-commercial licensed photos. problem
solved by technical solution.
see EDITING_POLICY in the themes/default/templates/signin.tmpl
define EDITING_POLICY in config/config.ini as a pagename.

EDITING_POLICY =3D SigninPage

Make a new SigninPage with the license restrictions explained there.

> We want to create profile pages as follows.
> http://artrecipes.wikia.com/wiki/Jade
>
> So we are looking for a new wiki servise.
>
> And now, let us ask you a question.
>
> Art Recipes is an art project where people can provide insight into the
> process of his/her artworks, and works closely with Flickr photogroup.
>
> If we use photos uploaded to Flickr photostream in Wikicities, what kind =
of
> copyright can we hold?

any. you can decide.

> Can we put photos that have non-commercial only license to Wiki?

not yet.
wikis prefer non-technical solutions over technical solutions.
humans are better than machines.

how to decide technically which license a photo has?
for a possible solution see above.

> Best Wishes.
> York Date: ma...@yo...
> Hiroshi Nishimura: nih...@ya...
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