2006/11/12, peter green plugwash@p10link.net:
the way i see it there are three ways out of the situation. 1: spanish wikipedia reenables uploads and goes back to dealing with most of thier own copyvio problems. 2: the spanish wikipedia users/admins make a significant effort to help deal with the copyvio problems with spanish users on commons. 3: commons adopts and extreme zero tolerance policy towards anyone who appears spanish
Of the ways out the third option is the least favorable, but it is also the only option that can be implemented without your help.
There is 4th way:
4. Do something with this:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Upload
Do not send people directly on commons - prepare a manual with most important informations in Spanish language, that everybody should know and write, that if you understand that, you can go to commons (and link to commons at this moment, not earlier).
On pl.wiki we have something like that:
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specjalna:Upload
Most important info is in read, there are links to some help pages, etc. and it works good - not much copyvios on commons and pl.wiki (but of course they are)
I think, that 4 is easier than 1,2 and less brutal than 3.
AJF/WarX