Comments on: Advice on using Wikipedia

By: Roo

Roo — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:32:41 +0000

Because some of those photos are sourced from creative commons photos on Flickr (from BBC employees who have opted in to have their photos used in this way), in combination with people machine tagging their photos, you can search for (some) photos about programmes which are also Creative Commnons licenced.

By: Briantist

Briantist — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:47:10 +0000

It would be very handy if the pictures that accompany programmes on the iPlayer were make “creative commons with attribution” so they could be used on Wikipedia to illustrate articles about the TV and radio broadcast.

By: dave

dave — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:34:20 +0000

@kyb: would a wikipedia-specific licence be okay? I was under the impression that those were only used in exceptional circumstances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fair_use#Background

That commitment to a wider community is just one of the many things I find charming about wikipedia.

By: kyb

kyb — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:18:03 +0000

It’d also be extremely cool to see clips from bbc news / documentaries / programs on relevant wikipedia articles.

A specific wikipedia license would be OK, if a more generally friendly license would be too hard to arrange.

By: kyb

kyb — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:15:31 +0000

Excellent stuff. It’ll be interesting to see what you do in this area.

I suppose one area that particularly occurs to me is that occasionally I find the news stories are a little short on background. Having a couple of links at the bottom on places to read about the background to a conflict or news story (usually wikipedia is a good source, and when it isn’t, perhaps the bbc folks could make it one), would be a bit advantage.