Hi, 2014-02-26 16:01 GMT+05:30 David Gerard <[email protected]>:
> On 24 February 2014 20:51, Galileo Vidoni <[email protected]> wrote: > > > However, over the last months certain Wikimedia Commons administrators > have > > conducted massive deletions of these contents, in many cases involving > > entire categories. The burden of proof has been inverted: instead of > having > > to justify the deletion of a certain file, things go that volunteers have > > to devout their time trying to justify the validity of their efforts. > This > > has caused great damage, not only by way of our readers loosing access to > > free educational contents, but also de-motivating many editors and > > volunteers by making them feel that their efforts are ultimately vain and > > that our goal of free knowledge for everyone is being replaced by a > certain > > legal fetishism whose reason gets lost in processes and misses the > outcome. > > This strongly suggests that URAA is a good reason to deprecate > Commons, and have language wikis self-host images that fail the more > unduly stringent requirements Commons is manifesting these days. > If only some Commons admins were not pursuing a political campaign to delete all these under false pretences, everything would be much better. Regards, Yann _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
