A couple of years ago a proposed project was for the WMF to pay for access to the Google image matching API access so we could run a copyvio bot on the live new uploads list. Such a bot would not be terribly hard to get working, and would be a great experiment to see if this aspect of the more boring side of sysop tools could be reduced.[1]
Not specifically advocating auto-deletion, but daily housekeeping image matches to highly likely copyrighted categories would make mass housekeeping very easy. A separate old chestnut was my proposal to introduce systemic image hashes, which neatly show "close" image matches.[2] With a Commons hat on, such a project would be of far more immediate pragmatic use than mobile-related and structured data-related projects that seem to suck up all the oxygen and volunteer time available. Note that the history of these project/funding ideas is so long, that several of the most experienced long term volunteers that were originally interested have since retired. Without some positive short term encouragement, not only do these ideas never reach the useful experiment stage, but the volunteers involved simply fade away. Links 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2016/02#Google_has_opened_an_API_for_image_recognition 2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/Imagehash Fae On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 12:21, Amir Sarabadani <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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) > _______________________________________________ [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ 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>
