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Wikidata:Property proposal/external image URL

< Wikidata:Property proposal

external image URL edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic

   Not done
DescriptionURL of an image, typically non-free, held outside the Wikimedia system; or on that system under fair-use provision
Data typeURL
Domainall
Allowed valuesURLs of images
Example
See also
  • image (P18)
  • Commons compatible image available at URL (P4765)
  • Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archive/7#Image
  • Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archive/22#non-free_data_available_at
  • Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archive/29#non-free_file_URL
  • Wikidata:Property_proposal/Proposals_for_files

    • Motivation

    A need for a way to link to images which we cannot host on Wikimedia Commons because they are not free to use (i.e. not under an open licence, nor copyright expired) has been shown. Use cases include album and book artwork, film posters and stills, portraits and artworks; and news events. Often these are the only available images of the subject.

    The proposed property would not be used where a suitable image is available on Wikimedia Commons.

    We should link to the images themselves, not the page hosting the image (which may hold more than one image) though the latter URL may be included as a qualifier or reference (as demonstrated in the first two examples, above)

    Question: For 'fair use' images on projects like en.Wikipedia, should we prefer to link to the original source, and only use the Wikipedia URL if none is available; or the reverse? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:52, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Discussion

      Support per previous discussion − Pintoch (talk) 21:05, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    •   Comment added some previous discussions at "see also".
      --- Jura 13:03, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    •   Support certainly.@Pigsonthewing, Pintoch: Thanks for attention David (talk) 15:23, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    •   Oppose per previous discussion. At the very least... unless the scope of this property is circumscribed to images published by reliable sources. If it means linking every image we are able to find in the Google Images service regardless who published it, we could be linking clear-cut "copyright violations" (not exactly the same as linking "copyrighted material"), becoming a pirate web. Why not linking copyrighted films uploaded to Mega (Q2580273) too? It would be awesome, for sure, and we'd only include the download link, not the file or the page. Also, I also have concerns with this property probably dampening Wikimedia Commons and free knowledge/media, being a way to bypass free licenses. strakhov (talk) 16:28, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      • @Strakhov: I do not think the presence of such a roperty will affect Commons because the production of free images does not stop David (talk) 18:06, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
        • Then we agree to disagree. strakhov (talk) 18:06, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
          • @Strakhov: if your concerns were valid, they would apply to any property that accepts arbitrary URLs: we can already link to copyright-violating material with described at URL (P973) or full work available at URL (P953) if we want to (and of course we should not). So the point about Mega (Q2580273) really doesn't hold: we can already link to that with full work available at URL (P953). There are two distinct and independent discussions to be had: the one about property creation (where we talk about schemas and ontologies) and the one about WMF policies on external links (where we talk about copyright law and ways to promote openly licensed content).

            Also, I don't think Commons would suffer much from this property. It will still be more interesting to have a image (P18) than an "external image URL", because the integration of image (P18) is much better (you can see the image from the Wikidata editing interface, or in other derived tools).

            Overall, the previous discussions were about broader properties (this one is only about images), and I don't see any valid point being made there (please dig them up if you find some). − Pintoch (talk) 15:35, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

            • Labelling other contributors' comments as "valid" or "not valid" seems to me somehow pretentious, but let's go. I'll do not answer your first point "this property becoming a messy crap of urls not belonging to reliable sources honouring copyright is not a problem because we already have other properties to do that". Second, this thing allows people to link their non-free images in Wikidata (and because of that in many other places) bypassing the need on free licensing them. I do not know how that serves Wikimedia Commons or free content (Q14075) movement. You think it does? Well ...me not. strakhov (talk) 22:27, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
              • Pintoch did not label your comments as invalid; he implied that your concerns are; that's a perfectly ordinary - and applicable - English phrase. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:35, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
                • @Strakhov: sorry if I offended you! As you can imagine, I do care about open content too (I would not be here otherwise). I am just trying to point out that Wikidata already links to a wide range of external websites which are not openly licensed. We badly need these external links to non-free content: otherwise we would not be able to cite any newspaper to back a claim! So yes, references to non-free content are allowed, and they are even encouraged. Citing a book is not the same as printing a copy of it and the same holds for websites. The Wikimedia movement does promote free content, but in a world dominated by non-free content that it would be foolish to ignore. − Pintoch (talk) 08:16, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
                  • No offense taken, it's just not pleasant to discuss other people ideas/concerns/comments in terms such as "valid". I guess "convincing" would be nicer. I have nothing more to say: IMHO 1) this property harms Commons and 2) "we" ('we' as Wikimedia Projects) do not badly need this property. Let's see what other people think below and move on. strakhov (talk) 17:46, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      • If Pinterst, Flickr, Instagram and Google Images haven't killed Commons, then I doubt this property will. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:48, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    •   Question Will this property require a mandatory copyright license (P275) qualifier? --Pasleim (talk) 16:47, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    •   Comment How would these links be maintained/monitored?
      --- Jura 10:14, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

      Not done No consensus. Micru (talk) 10:57, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Hello, I don't know if it's the right way to do so, but I'd like to raise again that topic either here or there Wikidata:Property proposal/Image link. Thanks, Bouzinac (talk) 19:28, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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