Hi sitereq-l,
I'm looking for context regarding our upload-by-url allowlist in the hopes of reducing workload for the site request process. Does anyone know
* Why do we even have an allowlist for upload-by-url? I presume this is to make it harder to upload a large amount of non-free files, but I'm curious if there are any other reasons that I'm not aware of.
* If there aren't other reasons for having the allowlist, are there any reasons other than "someone needs to work on it" that would not let us to move the allowlist to a system message that Commons administrators can edit?
Thanks!
-- Taavi