Is the shortage of admins due to a lack of people willing or capable to do the
job, or increasing difficulty in obtaining the bit?
On May 12, 2019, at 3:55 AM, Tomasz Ganicz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, Actually, at the moment it looks they are all undeleted.
>
> The good habit - which I was keeping when organizing several GLAM-related
> mass uploads - was to create on Commons project page describing what it is
> intended to be uploaded, preferably in English. Then you can create a
> project template to mark all uploads with them.
>
> See: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Partnerships
>
> Despite practical issue of avoiding unnecessary clashes with Common's
> admins - creating template and project page helps to promote you project
> across Wikimedia communities and may inspire others to do something similar.
>
> Commons is indeed quite hostile environment for uploaders, but on the other
> hand it is constantly flooded by hundreds of copyright violating files a
> day:
>
> See the list from just one day:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/2019/05/01
>
> so this hostility works both ways - Common's admins have to cope with
> aggressive hostile copyright violators every day, and after some time -
> decide to leave or became being hostile themselves... and the other issue
> is decreasing number of active admins and OTRS agents.
>
> I think - sooner or later - all this system - uploads - screening uploads
> by admins, and OTRS agreements - needs deep rethinking.
>
>
> niedz., 12 maj 2019 o 10:48 Mister Thrapostibongles <
> [email protected]> napisał(a):
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> There seems to be a dispute between the Outreach and the Commons components
>> of The Community, judging by the article "Wikimedia Commons: a highly
>> hostile place for multimedia students contributions" at the Education
>> Newsletter
>>
>>
>> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/April_2019/Wikimedia_Commons:_a_highly_hostile_place_for_multimedia_students_contributions
>>
>> As far as I can understand it, some students on an Outreach project
>> uploaded some rather well-made video material, and comeone on Commons
>> deleted them because they appeared to well-made to be student projects and
>> so concluded they were copyright violations. But some rather odd remarks
>> were made "Commons has to fight the endless stream of uploaded copyrighted
>> content on behalf of a headquarters in San Francisco that doesn't care."
>> and
>> "you have regarded Commons as little more than free cloud storage for
>> images you intend to use on Wikipedia ".
>>
>> Perhaps the Foundation needs to resolve this dispute?
>>
>> Thrapostibongles
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