On 24 February 2014 20:51, Galileo Vidoni
<galio2k(a)gmail.com> wrote:
However, over the last months certain Wikimedia
Commons administrators
have
conducted massive deletions of these contents, in
many cases involving
entire categories. The burden of proof has been inverted: instead of
having
to justify the deletion of a certain file, things
go that volunteers have
to devout their time trying to justify the validity of their efforts.
This
has caused great damage, not only by way of our
readers loosing access to
free educational contents, but also de-motivating many editors and
volunteers by making them feel that their efforts are ultimately vain and
that our goal of free knowledge for everyone is being replaced by a
certain
legal fetishism whose reason gets lost in
processes and misses the
outcome.
This strongly suggests that URAA is a good reason to deprecate
Commons, and have language wikis self-host images that fail the more
unduly stringent requirements Commons is manifesting these days.
If only some Commons admins were not pursuing a political campaign to
delete all these under false pretences, everything would be much better.
Regards,
Yann