I just wanted to say this is nothing new, and I don't see this ending soon. Like look at http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews:Bots&oldid=339247 that happened a while ago, but esentially is still just commons and another wikimedia project having a spitting contest. The problem is you can't get in touch with the majority of uploaders, and you don't have enough people to get in touch with the ones you can. That is very hard to fix.
[[user:Bawolff]]
On 11/12/06, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
The problem is you can't get in touch with the majority of uploaders, and you don't have enough people to get in touch with the ones you can. That is very hard to fix.
Exactly. This is why David's claims that we're just whining is just a load of rubbish.
If an eswiki hits upload, he's brought to commons and told to make an account. He makes one, uploads, and then goes back to eswiki where he probably doesn't have an account. We can leave messages until we turn blue in the face. He'll never get them.
If he uploaded locally, he'd be able to get messages from local users... if not right away, then hopefully the next day because his browser will still be logged in. Not a sure thing, but much better.
Once we have (1) SUL (with log login logs in them all), (2) cross project message notices (which is not planned AFAIK), then we'll be doing better but even then there are problems. They create an account, upload, we leave a message but we couldn't tell what language they speak.. so the message is either in the wrong languge or using one of our giant multilanguage boilerplate boxes which people obviously ignore because they look automated and too complex.