IMO commons need either a Clue Bot NG for new uploads or ores support for images that might be copyright violation, or both.
Best On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 1:10 PM Yaroslav Blanter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> -- Amir (he/him) _______________________________________________ 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>
