Wikipedia talk:Image use policy/Archive 1
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Images without descriptions may be summarily deleted! That's just plain silly. A picture is worth a thousand words. An image explains itself. Why should I HAVE to describe it? -- Zoe
The main point of descriptions is to state where the image came from and give some info on copyright status. So without that info the image may be deleted. We are not saying that a picture which is obviously of a whale has to say this. --mav 19:46 Aug 19, 2002 (PDT)
I propose adding the sentence "Please write your description of the image in a language understood by many Wikipedians, in enough words that we can recognize the language.". Several days ago someone uploaded a picture of a horse with a one-word description: "Kon". It took me a couple of days to figure out that "Kon" is Polish for "horse". The missing diacritic didn't help. -phma
Eventually, all of the foreign wikis will have their own upload space, but until then it's probably not a bad idea to say something. --LDC
Are all the foreign wikis going to have their own admins too? I'm sure there is a lot of cleaning up to do in the more active wikis. --mav
- Surely there will be a lot of duplication if each language has upload space. A picture of a horse should be good for all languages. Of course, we may want pictures for different breeds... but the same principle applies. -- Tarquin
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- Harddrive space is ultra cheap. There is also nothing stopping any language user to search the image database of any other languge for images to use and upload to their own language wikipedia. --mav
- Images on description pages - moved to Wikipedia talk:Image use policy/Images on description pages
The current recommendation: "Do convert GIF images to PNG, except for "animated" GIFs" should be amended "except for animated GIFs, which should be converted to MNG".
The MNG format is essentially a container for multiple PNG images, allowing animation. All major browsers understand the MNG format (MIME type "video/x-mng"), and many image conversion programs can convert multi-image GIF to MNG.
I'd like to know what others think about this before changing the FAQ though, hence this Talk entry.
-- Bignose
Judging from the WWW site that you linked, Internet Explorer requires the (admittedly free) ActiveX control MNG4IE to read MNGs.
— Toby 05:34 Nov 30, 2002 (UTC)
In my experience using images, a lawyer talked about the 'seven edits' rule, which says basically that any image is usable provided there have been at least seven steps of alteration from its original state. In other words, enough differentiation to render an image distinct from the original, so, a rezise, a crop, a color adjustment or two, etc... a despeckle filter, and a couple of rubber stamp erasures or spots... Any comments on this? 豎眩sv
See also: m:Image pages, for discussion on having new markup for images and image description pages.
- The CIA factbook now has maps as GIFs, not JPGs. I'm going to update the relevant section...
