On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Gwern Branwen gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
As with most such things, it's surely the latter. But do we want to encourage mass uploads? I thought people were already rather unhappy with so much fair use and copyvios and poor quality uploads (these were the cited reasons for not moving all non-fairuse on en to Commons), and promotion of tools would necessarily encourage use by non-savvy users...
If that's the case, then we have a huge problem. That's saying that we want to build this massive free repository of images, but we can't trust people to fill it up. Surely there are solutions, to allow us to quickly detect and repel "bad" uploads, while assisting those who make "good" uploads.
Steve