Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use/Todo

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This is just an outline of outstanding tasks for now. Feel free to flesh it out.

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[edit] Open tasks

[edit] Fair use tag reform

Most of the existing "fair use" tags need several improvements; see Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use#Goals. A list of tags that have been rewritten and tags that have not been written is on Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use/Fair use tag reform. Please rewrite tags that have not been rewritten so that they are more in line with the goals of the project. Don't worry if it's not perfect the first time around, this is a wiki after all. Suggested further reading before starting might be Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use and Wikipedia:Fair use.

[edit] Re-tagging images

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use/Fair use tag reform for a more-or-less complete list of fair use tags, and Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for a list of all common image copyright tags. For a slightly related to-do, see "Allowing us to automate removing orphaned fair use images" below.

[edit] Monitoring

A monitoring proposal will be at Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use/Monitoring. As of this writing, the link is red, so any help writing the proposal would be appreciated. If you wish to discuss it first, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fair use. We've already created three tags – {{fairusedisputed}}, {{fairusereview}}, and {{oldfairusereview}} – for the purpose. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fair use#Template:Fairusedisputed for more details about proposed use.

[edit] Allowing us to automate removing orphaned fair use images

This task is complete as of 22:39, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

From the WikiEN-l mailing list:

On 9/23/05, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin@g---mail.com> wrote: 
> On 9/23/05, Fastfission <fastfission@g---mail.com> wrote:
> > I think it *would* be very nice to have a robot which would scour the
> > "fair use" categories for orphaned images, and mark them with a little
> > remark which said, "If this image is not used in a week, it will be
> > deleted. If you object to this, simply edit this image description --
> > if this robot is not the last editor of the image description, it will
> > just be flagged for review." or something like that.
> 
> I've started writing that robot, but ran into a problem with the
> pywikipedia framework and Category:Fair use images.  It seems that
> there are more than 200 images in the category indexed under "Upload"
> (due to a now-fixed bug in MediaWiki from last April and May), which
> causes the category enumerator in pywikipedia to loop endlessly.  Once
> I've manually touched enough of the images which are indexed under
> "Upload" to drop that count below 200, the bug will clear and I'll be
> able to use the robot to enumerate the category and do the orphan
> check on a periodic basis.
> 
> If you want to help, go to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Fair_use_images&from=Upload
> and make null edits on the images listed therein.  This will cause
> them to be reindexed properly and fix the indexing problem with the
> Category.  There's a lot of them.
> 
> Kelly

[edit] WP:CP

There will probably always be claims of fair use cropping up here.Geni 21:32, 29 November 2005 (UTC)