On 4/1/07, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/1/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/1/07, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de wrote:
It would be in our interest to block access to sites which continue to distribute copyright infringements which we have deleted.
Right. On another note, has a policy been thought out about mediawiki installations which would bar their users from uploading images locally and ask them to do so on Commons?
Does the Wikimedia Commons community have the strength to deal with potentially thousands of new users not aware of our "free" policies and uploading images to Commons?
Is there a requirement that the websites allowed to use InstantCommons host free content? Or can every Tom Dick or Harry use InstantCommons?
It's just a software feature. We might not use it. I would strongly suggest that we not use it until we have good answers to these questions.
As far as handling new users goes, ... we need to improve that for ourselves even without the extra pressure of instantcommons. Many things have been proposed, few implemented.
As far as free content or not sites goes, It would be be very interesting when some of our commons users start enforcing the copyleft terms of their images licenses against sites using instant commons images in sites which are non-free.
For the copyright related concerns I raised earlier in the thread, here is a fun datapoint:
177,734 files uploaded to commons in Jan and Feb 2007, of those files 20,741 have already been deleted which is a bit under 12%. There have been 45,810 total image deletions on commons since Jan 1st.
This graph is also interesting: http://72.165.205.81/dimage_life3.png
It shows the distribution of age at time of deletion for files deleted on commons. The green curve is the most recent quarter, the purple is prior quarter. It's clear that the introduction of bot-deletion for backlogs has had a substantial impact on the timing of our deletions.
The slope of the CDF after it initially stabilises would indicate that once a file has passed 15 or so days old the probability of us deleting on any given day is just a small constant. This wouldn't be bad if old deletions weren't such a substantial fraction of our total deletions.