On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0(a)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