Dear commoners
Wikimedia Commons is known to be very strict on copyright. We are even stricter than most of the Wikimedias. So far so good.
What surprises me a bit is that so many deletion requests never get processed once the debate is closed.
I find unprocessed deletion requests as old as April 2008! http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/2008/04
OK this is an exception but also in May there are several unprocessed requests: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/2008/05
And when I look in June it seems that just a few of them have already been processed: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/2008/06
What's going on here?
Regards
Robin
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Robin Schwab contact@robinschwab.chwrote:
Dear commoners
Wikimedia Commons is known to be very strict on copyright. We are even stricter than most of the Wikimedias. So far so good.
What surprises me a bit is that so many deletion requests never get processed once the debate is closed.
I find unprocessed deletion requests as old as April 2008! http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/2008/04
OK this is an exception but also in May there are several unprocessed requests: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/2008/05
And when I look in June it seems that just a few of them have already been processed: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/2008/06
What's going on here?
Regards
Robin
Commons' backlog has always been pretty big, in the time I have been there. Stuff in the speedy category often lasted for months. Now though, an admin bot goes through that and so the backlog for that is non-existent. DR requires a human closure though. More admins are needed! (Or maybe lazy ones like me should pick up the pace).
Hi,
Maybe we need more admins for the Deletion requist. We have many admin's but only a few does the DR
Cheers,
Huib
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Codeispoetry codeispoetry@adrianlang.dewrote:
You're not serious about the bot, are you?
Yes, I am. I used to use a bot to clear it. (Obviously, I checked every image, but the deletions took place in an automated manner).
Al Tally wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Codeispoetry
You're not serious about the bot, are you?
Yes, I am. I used to use a bot to clear it. (Obviously, I checked every image, but the deletions took place in an automated manner).
Alex (User:Majorly)
Can you explain what is exactly done by the bot? If you checked each image, it isn't so different than using multiple tabs for deleting.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Can you explain what is exactly done by the bot? If you checked each image, it isn't so different than using multiple tabs for deleting.
I used a tool (I forget the name) that checked the usage of each image, and what was in its description. Using this, I removed any images that had a lot of uses, and also images that had no issues. With the rest, I put them into a python script and had the pywikipediabot do the rest.