[sorry for people from wikies-l, this message is only in English because I cannot speak Spanish ]
On 11/12/06, peter green plugwash@p10link.net wrote:
2006/11/12, peter green plugwash@p10link.net:
the way i see it there are three ways out of the situation. 1: spanish wikipedia reenables uploads and goes back to dealing
with most of thier own copyvio problems.
2: the spanish wikipedia users/admins make a significant effort
to help deal with the copyvio problems with spanish users on commons.
3: commons adopts and extreme zero tolerance policy towards
anyone who appears spanish
Of the ways out the third option is the least favorable, but it
is also the only option that can be implemented without your help.
There is 4th way:
- Do something with this:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Upload
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).
Doing that would still require cooperation from the admins on es, also while it would improve things i'm not convinced it would improve them enough that we would feel comfortable handling them without help (btw how many active spanish admins does commons have at the moment?).
I have recently rebuilt the fr:wp upload page, and another sysop has replaced the link to Specia:Upload in the toolbox by a direct link to this help page : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide:Importer_un_fichier
The aim is to guide people before sending them to Commons. Maybe the Spanish-language Wikipedia could do something similar.