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LuckyTheDog

(6,837 posts) Fri Jul 15, 2016, 11:21 AM Jul 2016

Has anyone here tried to get involved with Wikimedia Commons?

Has anyone here tried to get involved with Wikimedia Commons?

I have, on two occasions, tried to participate on Wikimedia Commons by creating and uploading images. I use a lot of images from that site, so I figured I should contribute some as well.

But my experience has been dreadful. The website is incredibly hard to use. And when I make a mistake or violate any of their Byzantine rules, the moderators heap abuse on me.

What gives with that place?

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Has anyone here tried to get involved with Wikimedia Commons? (Original Post) LuckyTheDog Jul 2016 OP

I use it as a go-to place for copyright-free images. MH1 Jul 2016 #1

MH1

(17,600 posts)

1. I use it as a go-to place for copyright-free images.

Reply to LuckyTheDog (Original post)

Fri Jul 15, 2016, 12:00 PM

Jul 2016

I think the rules are there to insure they (and users like me) don't get in trouble for infringing copyright, and that contributors can specify the exact "copy-left" parameters they prefer.

I've never tried to get involved as a contributor (at least not that I remember). I definitely appreciate the site's existence as an image user, though.

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