Hoi,
The current thinking is that while Commons will be "Wikidatified", it will have its own database. Consequently even the STATEMENTS about any discussion (ie the results) will be local to Commons. The discussions will be in "Flow" or whatever. So no worries mate.

When a file is used, explicitly all the projects have a vested interest in a file. When a project has room for its own policies re media files, it makes sense to build on top of what has been decided on a global level.. IE there is a reason why it is no longer globally available and the local project decides on "fair use". This would be local information that is in addition to the information that is globally available.

Finally, the authorisation of usage is not low hanging fruit. The first order of business is to make sure that the meta data about media files becomes available in all our languages. This will enable the finding of images easier. 
Thanks,
      GerardM


On 22 June 2014 09:45, Gnangarra <gnangarra@gmail.com> wrote:
The image isnt directly lost to the other projects Commons has a policy of allowing temporary restoration for transfer to another project under fair use provisions,

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Undeletion_requests#Temporary_undeletion

as Gerard kind of identifies the issue is in the communication when deletions occurs to project whos contributors may not be active on Commons and are therefore unable to contribute to the deletion discussion process.

So the question then is how can we improve this communitcation between projects, my thoughts are;
  • notification on article talk pages of articles where the media is in use, with a link to the discussion so they can participate
  • when a discussion is closed then a notification to the talk page giving the result and advising of options of  delreview or transfer locally.


Personally I wouldnt like to see the communication of Commons activities put in the hands of a third project(WikiData) thats only going to make more points of arguments





On 22 June 2014 14:59, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
Much of the "ordering around" is the consequence of LOSING the images when Commons decides to no longer make media files available. Even when a project allows for things like "fair use", the images are lost to them when Commons decides to remove access.

When the information is Wikidatified, the image in a project will still refer to that Wiki project and it WILL state that Commons has removed it from the media files that are generally available. It is then for the people to grant a local right to use that image.

In this way Commons does what it thinks best and the local projects gained the ability to do whatever fits their policies.
Thanks,
     GerardM


On 22 June 2014 08:38, Rama Neko <ramaneko@gmail.com> wrote:
It makes as much sense to say that Commons is a repository for other Wikimedia projects, than to say that Wikipedia is here to provide encyclopedic context to the media of Wikimedia Commons.

Where the real asymetry lies is in the feeling of superiority of certain users of others projects who see Commons as a "service project", and from there construct the notion that jackbooting in and ordering people around is remotely legitimate (and, to be practical, has a chance to work).
There is a small number of users, always the same, who regularly attempt to push an agenda of lax copyright standards for Commons; when this fails they try to impose their proposed policies by drumming up support from people with vested interests from other projects, and notorious authoritarians. Has anybody ever seen an influx of Commonists flocking to wp.he to "treat it as a problem"?

That is where the real problem is. The issue is not hosting these media, they can be hosted locally on the projects that use them as "Free-but-not-on-Commons", or as "Fair use". The issue is beating Commons into submission, as an aim in itself. Well, pardon us if we object.

  -- Rama




On 21 June 2014 19:19, Yann Forget <yannfo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Rama,

Sorry, but you have it all wrong.

1. Wikimedia is a repository for other Wikimedia projects. It is its
primary mission.

2. But this does not make Commons contributors second-class. On the
opposite, importing and managing files for other projects make them
first-class IMHO. ;oD

Yann


2014-06-21 10:04 GMT+05:30 Rama Neko <ramaneko@gmail.com>:
> Commons is not there to serve other projects. Commons is a project of its
> own standing, and the other projects are there to serve it just as much as
> it is there to serve other projects.
>
> It is really dispiriting to see how certain people see Commonists as some
> sort of second-class contributors. That is wrong in every sense of the word
> -- it is an error and an injustice.
>   -- Rama
>
>
>
> On 20 June 2014 23:45, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 20 June 2014 22:28, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Blocking because people do not agree with you is very much antagonising.
>> > The
>> > intention is that Commons serves other projects so why is someone
>> > blocked
>> > when they make sure people take notice of what is happening at Commons?
>> > I fins it is rather offensive all these !@#$%%. It gives the impression
>> > that
>> > there is no conversation possible and that it has degenerated into a
>> > power
>> > play.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've noted before: If Commons doesn't want to be regarded as a problem
>> by other projects, it really needs to start behaving less like one.
>>
>>
>> - d.
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