Picture licenses

[Haroenv]

I don't see under what license the current pictures are implemented and what ones we could use. For example if I'd want to add https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brugge_Station_R01.jpg there'll have to be a spot for attribution (and wherever it's reused, I think BeTrains uses these images). How would this best be implemented?

[SerkanYildiz]

Maybe these images can be used for station pages, with additional info like parking etc. Could be useful for the user.

[pietercolpaert]

Maybe we should remove the pictures and just use Wiki Commons for this? https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fstation%20%3FsLabel%20%3Fpicture%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fs%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ55488.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fs%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ31.%0A%20%20%3Fs%20wdt%3AP2888%20%3Fstation%3B%20%23wikidata%20ID%20%E2%86%92%20same%20as%20%E2%86%92%20iRail%20ID%0A%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpicture%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20order%20by%20%3Fline%20ASC%28%3FsLabel%29

[Bertware]

Sounds like a good plan. If possible we could move the facilities of each station to wikidata as well, however, those queries still feel really inaccessible. Providing a thorough tututorial with examples on how to access it, or providing a proxy service which accepts a GET requests, makes the queries and returns the results seem like ways how we could make this way more accessible.

[Haroenv]

Note that the ones returned by Wikidata are the same as on wikipedia, so still need the attribution. Which change are you suggesting? The problem I see with Wikidata is that it's quite slow 🤔

[pietercolpaert]

Right now we don’t have license information to the images included in this repository... If we continue on keeping them in this repo, we need at least to add attribution, or we can just use the images from wikipedia, which already have good © statements.

Wikidata is indeed quite slow, but we can create a script to replicate the images locally, including the © statements.

[ChristopheVersieux]

Hello,

Just wanted to reopen this old discussion.

I just wanted to know if there was some initiatives on this topic since April 2018?

I am willing to help, but I don't know wher eto start to scrape all the images and add the ©. Do you want to watermark it on the pictures? Or let devs do it in the application?

[pietercolpaert]

Devs should do it in the application.

An annoyance is that I cannot find a way to automatically find the license information attached to an image. I hope someone acquainted with wiki commons can help out here: https://twitter.com/pietercolpaert/status/1214474399237181440