2006/11/12, peter green <plugwash(a)p10link.net>et>:
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