<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Sounds workable in theory, can it be carried out in practice?<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Platonides <Platonides@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, December 6, 2008 5:10:26 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening<br></font><br>
Lars Aronsson wrote:<br>> Maybe we should turn the system around, so our Swedish newcomers <br>> can upload images to the Swedish Wikipedia, where they are <br>> patrolled by Swedish speaking admins. Then, the patrolled images <br>> can be automatically forwarded to Commons, instead of the other <br>> way around. Even though this would require software development, <br>> this seems a lot easier than trying to manage the admin community <br>> on Commons.<br><br>So, what about this:<br>*User uploads from Swedish wikipedia using Special:GlobalUpload (only<br>for SUL accounts).<br>*The image is uploaded on commons, where it gets an additional tag with<br>'uploaded from Swedish wikipedia'.<br>*Blocked status of both local and commons is taken into account.<br>*The upload log is created on both commons and wikipedia.<br>*Once a wrong image is uploaded, there's a race condition between<br>commons ans Swedish admins to detect it. As commons
get much more<br>images, they're likely to lose it.<br>*Image can be deleted both by commons admins and local sysops. Local<br>sysops can't delete it if it's older than a month (or another reasonable<br>time).<br>*Upload policies are still those of commons.<br>*Commons templates are shown at wikipedia on the local language if<br>available (interesting on its own, but hard).<br>*Talk page links on uploader should point to Swedish talk (or give links<br>to both talks).<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Commons-l mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org" href="mailto:Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org">Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l" target="_blank">https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l</a><br></div></div></div><br>
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