The whitelist is not for the community. Its out of concerns of
malicious webservers attacking wmf servers (Personally I think that's
a little paranoid, but that's the way it is). There's a bug about this
somewhere in phabricator

--
Brian

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Fæ <faewik@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be interesting to make a proposal to the community that the
> whitelist is dropped for some demonstrably good uploaders. I would have to
> think about the case for dropping it all together, as GWT rights are often
> granted to uploaders with virtually no long term history on Wikimedia
> projects. In fact one feature of GWT is that it can be used by GLAM
> professionals with no previous project experience, in particular may find
> unexpected difficulties in handling community contention over their uploads.
>
> Fae
>
> On 15 November 2016 at 16:11, Steinsplitter Wiki
> <steinsplitter-wiki@live.com> wrote:
>>
>> BTW: IMHO the whitelist stuff should be removed. I see no need to
>> whitelist domains. We assume good faith, unlikely that a GWT user uploads
>> tons of copyvios.
>>
>>
>> Users have to apply for the right and then they have to whitelist the
>> domain, too complicated.
>>
>>
>> For example https://tools.wmflabs.org/url2commons/ has no restriction at
>> all (as far i know), at least not a domain whitelist.
>>
>>
>> --Steinsplitter
>>>
>>>
>
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