2006/11/12, Artur Fija³kowski <wiki.warx@gmail.com>:
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).
Actually, users who select the "upload file" menu item are sent to
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload?uselang=es
That page explains that a free license is required and gives links to several guidelines (in Spanish) . It also says that if in doubt the user should ask in the Spanish Wikipedia village pump.
Before the upload there is a red text saying: "
Si no indicas una licencia e información de origen adecuadas, tu fichero será borrado sin aviso previo. Gracias por tu comprensión."
Translated it looks something like: "If you dont add the proper source and license data your file will be deleted without notification."
I agree that educating better to the users could help, but it will never stop the problem, because people just don't care, they just want to upload an image, and they do not care about licensing, and I'm not very optimistic in that sense. Most of them are new users. The problem is seen on the Spanish Wikipedia users just because it is a very active Wikipedia (the second in number of accesses according Alexa) which does not allow local uploads. As soon as you close uploads on other Wikipedias, you will have the same problem with them.
Barcex