I would suggest another approach, decentralized and maybe simpler.
There are two reasons behind having this separation between a common repository and local
uploads:
1) understanding of fair-use is different across different countries and legislations and
local uploads reflect the local understanding => locally only fair-use uploads should
be tolerated, if any.
2) freely licensed stuff should be equally accessible to all projects => saving
resources from multiple local re-uploads of the same stuff.
On the other hand, we know the mechanism to separate fair-use from free images - by means
of different templates and categories : relatively few number and variety and repeating
over all projects.
So, my question is: is there a way for our developers to loosen the restrictions which
nowadays technically prevent local uploads from being accessible crosswiki? I see a
possible solution in linking the crosswiki accessibility to the image copyright
template/category:
* if tagged as fair-use, the image remains inaccessible from other wikis, or only
accessible to a set of wikis whose fair-use exemption doctrine is compatible with the
local one.
* freely licensed images can be linked to from elsewhere, without the need of multiple
local uploads which waste resources.
* images without any license tag again do not become accessible crosswiki, until properly
tagged/categorized.
This will return the admin maintenance boomerang back to the local wikis but should solve
the problems with novices, with language understanding and the Commons-specific procedures
which are obscure to community members who rarely attend or do not engage so much in
Commons community life. It would further ease the maintenance if once proven their
copyright status as fair-use or free, the images be protected so that the their
accessibility don't get compromised by changing the tag/category.
Cheers,
Vassia
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От: Lars Aronsson
Относно: Re: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening
До: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
Изпратено на: Събота, 2008, Декември 6 22:46:15 EET
Patricia Rodrigues wrote:
That's a wonderful idea! But many times our
main problem is the
lack of manpower in different languages to actually address
different users.
The more I think about this human side of the problem, the more I
think we should go back to local uploading. The forwarding to
Commons could be implemented by adding a "category:Suitable for
Commons" and a bot that scans this category. Then if the image is
deleted from Commons, the local copy would still exist.
If we want Wikipedia to scale from the narrow nerd community to a
wider society, including elderly, we need to greet them with
respect and in their own language. I don't see how we could
manage this on Commons, even if uploaded images were marked with
the uploader's interface language. We will always have the narrow
nerd community too, which can act as admins and an interface
towards the international community.
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se
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