Thanks for this clarity Paulo. Is there a way to move more of the underlying policies onto a public wiki rather than a closed one, to limit some of this confusion?
đđđđ On Wed., Feb. 26, 2020, 5:36 a.m. Paulo Santos Perneta, < [email protected]> wrote: > The OP is misleading. The issue is not with Commons at all, but with OTRS. > As far as I know, Commons never, ever, deleted a file which was in use in > any Wikimedia project, with the notable expectation of copyvios. Otherwise, > use in *any* wikimedia project = on scope for Commons. > > Apparently some OTRS volunteers follow some outdated procedures - including > that one related to selfies, which was mentioned - but that is a problem > exclusively with OTRS. I'm part of that team, and I always had the freedom > to decide which looked like a genuine selfie, and which was problematic at > that (e.g., with a copyright notice at the metadata). And, as far as I > know, anyone willing to help fixing those problems at OTRS is very much > welcome there. When the volunteers are very few, and the ones complaining > do not volunteer themselves, it only adds up to the pressure on the few > existing volunteers, making everything worse. > > Best, > Paulo > > Peter Southwood <[email protected]> escreveu no dia quarta, > 26/02/2020 Ă (s) 06:04: > > > This does seem unreasonable. Do they have an explanation at Commons? > > This is happening without standardising in one label Wikipedia, so it is > > jumping to quite a conclusion to assume that the issue is related. > > For the record, I am also opposed to rebranding to Wikipedia, but I do > not > > think this issue is necessarily related. > > Cheers, > > Peter > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of Gerard Meijssen > > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 6:10 PM > > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Why renaming to Wikipedia will wreak havoc on > other > > projects > > > > Hoi, > > Apparantly at Commons they have standardised themselves to only support > > Wikipedia. > > > > At Wikidata we have people who are notable according to our standards. We > > are actively asking them for images to illustrate our information. The > best > > suggestion we get is: do not ask for images because they are deleted at > > Commons. > > > > When this is what awaits us when we standardise on one label Wikipedia, > it > > is obvious that this is the worst scenario for the "other" projects. The > > projects who operate to different standards who have notability criteria > > different from English Wikipedia. > > Thanks, > > GerardM > > _______________________________________________ > > 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> _______________________________________________ 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>
