[Commons-l] You can't upload images directly to the Spanish Wikipedia - it leads to Commons

[Andrew Gray]

On 04/11/2007, Yuval Y <yuval.y.il at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've checked in the English, Hebrew, French and other Wikipedias, and
> found out you can upload fair use images, or at least, I haven't found
> and DIRECT link to the Commons.
> What do you suggest, should we block all the users just because they
> can't upload images directly to the Wikipedia?

Endearing though the image is, it's not some weird Commons power-grab :-)

The reason you can't have fair-use images on eswiki is because that
community *explicitly decided* not to accept fair-use material, and as
a side-effect of that later chose to move all their images to commons
and disable local uploads. (I believe the other project of comparable
size to do this is the Portugese Wikipedia.)

Letting you upload material to eswiki wouldn't get by the fact that
the eswiki community has agreed not to have fair-use material, and so
it would still get deleted.

"The Spanish Wikipedia only accepts free images, and has rejected fair
use since 2004, after a public vote. In 2006, it was decided to phase
out the use of local image uploads and to exclusively use Wikimedia
Commons for images and other media in the future." - the enwiki
article on eswiki.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk