Sounds workable in theory, can it be carried out in practice?
________________________________ From: Platonides Platonides@gmail.com To: commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, December 6, 2008 5:10:26 PM Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Maybe we should turn the system around, so our Swedish newcomers can upload images to the Swedish Wikipedia, where they are patrolled by Swedish speaking admins. Then, the patrolled images can be automatically forwarded to Commons, instead of the other way around. Even though this would require software development, this seems a lot easier than trying to manage the admin community on Commons.
So, what about this: *User uploads from Swedish wikipedia using Special:GlobalUpload (only for SUL accounts). *The image is uploaded on commons, where it gets an additional tag with 'uploaded from Swedish wikipedia'. *Blocked status of both local and commons is taken into account. *The upload log is created on both commons and wikipedia. *Once a wrong image is uploaded, there's a race condition between commons ans Swedish admins to detect it. As commons get much more images, they're likely to lose it. *Image can be deleted both by commons admins and local sysops. Local sysops can't delete it if it's older than a month (or another reasonable time). *Upload policies are still those of commons. *Commons templates are shown at wikipedia on the local language if available (interesting on its own, but hard). *Talk page links on uploader should point to Swedish talk (or give links to both talks).
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