Thanks for your replies. We'll surely take the French precedent into account if Commons' admins fail to reconsider the current policies and we propose hosting images on the Spanish Wikipedia. By the way, I forgot to mention that we've also published this letter on Meta and that there's also an ongoing discussion there: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Argentina/Open_letter_regarding_URAA
Best, Galileo On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Yann Forget <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
