On 10/16/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/10/2007, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
CommonsHelper does have the functionality to do
direct uploads via the
aforementioned bot account, however, that has been deactivated since
forever, due to concerns.
I would like to propose the reactivation of that feature. Concernes
about unsuitable uploads through the bot account are superflous, IMHO,
since images are screened thrice this way:
1. On the wikipedia where the image was originally uploaded
2. By the CommonsHelper (e.g. it will reject "fair use" images from en)
3. On commons, by the usual suspects :-)
Which is two levels of screening more than direct uploads to commons,
which were, last time I checked, enabled ;-)
That's some dubious counting :P
My point is that transfering images from wikipedias through
CommonsHelper is likely to result in little copyright violations,
compared to our working "grab a user name and upload whatever you
want" method :-)
Could CH use a bot similar to the Flickr upload bot? I
am really
impressed by its method (although it is a little counterintuitive the
first time). That way there is a solid record of who the transferrer
is... which is the sticking point to allowing "anonymous" transfers,
for me.
My whole point is "one-click transfer". IMHO it's less (the same at
best) work to save locally and upload than go through the
counter-intuitive edit-and-click-here loop.
Also, uploading under my account (instead of a bot) might convey some
false sense of ownership. I got some "your-image-is-being-deleted"
messages over the years for things I only transfered from a wikipedia.
I don't know any more about the images than is given in the
description; noone bothers to contact the original author on
wikipedia. Uploading through the bot would
* show the "tagging" admin that it's no use to write on the talk page
('cause its a bot), but look up the original uploader (one click)
* ease nuking of bad images ("bot upload, original uploader long gone
=> bye-bye")
Magnus