On 19/06/06, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
Potential problems: -Some people just download one bad file and go. Lots of people actually. So this only tackles one part of the problem.
Yes... well... I don't think there's anything we can do about that. Any more than we can get rid of "fly-by-night" vandals from Wikipedias. We just mark their images as missing source/license, they don't respond in 7 days, we delete it. It's a bit slower but we still get rid of it. (BTW I think you mean "upload". :))
- How do we make sure that files are reviewed within a certain period
of time (ie. do people on Commons have the time to do this?) so that people don't wait around for ever to get their reviewed satus waived?
Well, at the moment we have a WelcomeBot who automatically welcomes all new accounts with at least one edit or upload. It keeps a log of these welcomes at [[User:Orgullobot/Welcome log]]. Admins & others (all volunteers) check the contribs of these users and tag/delete their images & warn/advise the users as appropriate, then remove their name from the list.
From my perception, of 20 users, more than 10 are uploading obvious
copyvios and/or images without any source information. Around another 5 are uploading their own work but not categorising it. Maybe 2 out of 20 need no correction at all.
(5 seconds to upload, 5 minutes to delete... if you're lucky.)
It is actually a great approach that is working really well, because we are catching people right at the start when they're more likely to be around, and can fix misconceptions *before* they upload 50 images under the same flawed reasoning. But we unfortunately don't have enough people volunteering to help (there is <10 at the moment), so already there is a backlog of about a week.
- If it can be implemented at all, can it be accessed from local
wikipedias (ie. there are people who can review the stuff better in their own language and who are not commons users).
Well, if we don't have a Commons admin in X language, I really really encourage a person interested in Commons/images/helping people in their language to step forward and volunteer to be an admin. Even given the recent lifting of standards we still have the easiest admin requirements I've ever seen on Wikimedia.
cheers, Brianna