1. I think that if something can happen, it will. So without whitelisting
an accident with an unpleasant upload will happen sometime.
It is just a matter of estimating the risk against the fuss. Cleaning up
unwanted uploads is less work than maintaining the whitelist?
(The whitelist has also a positive psychological effect.))
2. In my experience, the whitelisting is not an important hurdle, but the
other requirements and lack of examples/documentation are.
(The Pattypan uploader lacks hurdles, whitelisting and a number of extra
features of GWT. Interesting to see how long it takes for abuse to occur.)
So i would say, keep the whitelist but then i'm not an expert.
Hansmuller
Op Di, 15 november, 2016 6:05 pm schreef bawolff:
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(a)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(a)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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