Just the active community itself is too small, compared with the amount of material it has to deal with.
Cheers Yaroslav On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 1:07 PM Benjamin Ikuta <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > >> New messages to: [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > > > -- > > Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz > > http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek > > http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
