Thanks for your replies. We'll surely take the French precedent into
account if Commons' admins fail to reconsider the current policies and we
propose hosting images on the Spanish Wikipedia. By the way, I forgot to
mention that we've also published this letter on Meta and that there's also
an ongoing discussion there:
Best,
Galileo
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Yann Forget <yannfo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
2014-02-26 16:01 GMT+05:30 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
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
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