dear spanish wikipedia admins/users
There has been a thread on commons-l recently relating to you and i think it would be a good idea to bring you into the loop so this can be resolved without interproject conflict.
The initial posting on the thread was the following by Artur Fijalkowski [wiki.warx@gmail.com]
From some time I've observed very strange thing:
Most of uploaded on commons copyvios is made by users who has spanish-like nicks, write in looking in this manner language, etc.
Because I see very large time coincidence with closing upload on es.wiki, I have (I hope) very good method of solving that:
I'm going to ban every user who will look like from es.wiki to me, without any warning after first upload.
Maybe than complains of such users will force them to open upload :)
This was followed by the following reply by Lennert Böhm [lennert.boehm@gmx.de]
But isn't Commons supposed to be the repository of images of all the Wikis, so that at some point in the future, all files will (are supposed to) be uploaded to Commons? Finally there's a Wikipedia that does that and you are trying to make them regret their decision? I don't believe this to be a good way of action.
This was followed by the following reply by Lukasz Garczewski [tor@oak.pl]
Lennert Böhm napisał(a):
But isn't Commons supposed to be the repository of images of all the Wikis, so that at some point in the future, all files will (are supposed to) be uploaded to Commons? Finally there's a Wikipedia that does that and you are trying to make them regret their decision? I don't believe this to be a good way of action.
Me either.
However, Artur has a poin there, or rather - he has hinted at a very serious problem we're facing right now.
On one hand using Commons should be easy and fun (it's still a wiki, right?). On thee other, however, if we make it to easy we may not be able to cope with the amount of copyvios.
I am 100% for moving all uploads to Commons, but I believe we have to have a procedure for that. I.e. some things should be done well *before* local uploads are disabled on a given wiki.
Some of those might include:
- translating most of the interface
- translating key project and help pages (the commons community should
complie a list of those)
- translating key templates
- having at least N active Commons admins speaking the language of the
wiki in question at level 2 or higher (where N is... well... I don't know, you tell me ;))
I'm not sure if that's all. Any other ideas?
The main idea is: yes, let's do this. But let's do it one step at a time, based on a common process.
As you can see from theese posts the commons admins are rather unhappy about you essentially dumping your copyvio problems on them when they are ill equipped to handle it.
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.
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:
4. 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).
On pl.wiki we have something like that:
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specjalna:Upload
Most important info is in read, there are links to some help pages, etc. and it works good - not much copyvios on commons and pl.wiki (but of course they are)
I think, that 4 is easier than 1,2 and less brutal than 3.
AJF/WarX
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 think, that 4 is easier than 1,2 and less brutal than 3.
indeed but will it be sufficiant or will people just ignore the documents and find thier own way to commons once they realise that is where they need to go.
[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.
2006/11/12, Artur Fijałkowski 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
Barcex wrote:
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)
PLEASE (this is offtopic for the conversation but I think it's important to set this straight)
Alexa's numbers are derived from measurements done from users of Alexa's toolbar, which is available only in English. As a consequence, its measurements are meaningful only for anglophone users. Alexa's numbers CANNOT be used to compare the number of accesses of the various languages!
(If I were to make a wild guess, I'd think that the large number of hispanophones with the Alexa toolbar are from the "Hispanic" population in the US.)
And even then that, I would like to add that many english users remove alexa or use firefox opera lynx etc without the toolbar
-bawolff On 11/12/06, David Monniaux David.Monniaux@free.fr wrote:
Barcex wrote:
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)
PLEASE (this is offtopic for the conversation but I think it's important to set this straight)
Alexa's numbers are derived from measurements done from users of Alexa's toolbar, which is available only in English. As a consequence, its measurements are meaningful only for anglophone users. Alexa's numbers CANNOT be used to compare the number of accesses of the various languages!
(If I were to make a wild guess, I'd think that the large number of hispanophones with the Alexa toolbar are from the "Hispanic" population in the US.)
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On 11/12/06, David Monniaux David.Monniaux@free.fr wrote:
Alexa's numbers are derived from measurements done from users of Alexa's toolbar, which is available only in English. As a consequence, its measurements are meaningful only for anglophone users. Alexa's numbers CANNOT be used to compare the number of accesses of the various languages!
Based on *editing rate* you could claim that Alexa over represents Spanish wikipedia. :)
I do not claim that Alexa is accurate, I'm just pointing out that Spanish Wikipedia has at least a significant amount of traffic and users in order be very vidible on Commons. On the other hand, closing the uploads on a 1000-article Wikipedia of course won't impact on Commons.
Barcex
2006/11/12, David Monniaux David.Monniaux@free.fr:
Barcex wrote:
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)
PLEASE (this is offtopic for the conversation but I think it's important to set this straight)
Alexa's numbers are derived from measurements done from users of Alexa's toolbar, which is available only in English. As a consequence, its measurements are meaningful only for anglophone users. Alexa's numbers CANNOT be used to compare the number of accesses of the various languages!
(If I were to make a wild guess, I'd think that the large number of hispanophones with the Alexa toolbar are from the "Hispanic" population in the US.)
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