On 19/06/06, Delphine Ménard <notafishz(a)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