G'day Steve,
Or perhaps I'm missing something - is there any reason I should ever want to upload something to EN, other than fair use?
If you wanted to upload a copyvio, it's probably preferable you do so on en-WP, where there's more people ready and watching (no disrespect intended to Commons admins, they're fine people). Also, any damage caused is thus limited to en-WP, rather than spread across other languages as the other 'pedias attempt to use that creamy image goodness.
Frankly, the number of dodgy images uploaded by irresponsible, selfish or just downright stupid people every day is enough to make one break down and gibber in terror. The last thing we want to do is inflict our problems on Commons ...
Cheers,
Gallagher Mark George wrote:
G'day Steve,
Or perhaps I'm missing something - is there any reason I should ever want to upload something to EN, other than fair use?
If you wanted to upload a copyvio, it's probably preferable you do so on en-WP, where there's more people ready and watching (no disrespect intended to Commons admins, they're fine people). Also, any damage caused is thus limited to en-WP, rather than spread across other languages as the other 'pedias attempt to use that creamy image goodness.
Frankly, the number of dodgy images uploaded by irresponsible, selfish or just downright stupid people every day is enough to make one break down and gibber in terror. The last thing we want to do is inflict our problems on Commons ...
Cheers,
Perhaps we should again consider restricting uploads to accounts that are not "new", in the same sense used for the semi-protection mechanism, as per earlier discussion?
-- Neil
On 03/05/06, Neil Harris neil@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Perhaps we should again consider restricting uploads to accounts that are not "new", in the same sense used for the semi-protection mechanism, as per earlier discussion?
Yes, I confess that I can't think of many situations where a brand new account is going to be uploading something we badly need.
Of course, if we do do this, we should provide an alternative channel for those special cases, just as we did for article creation. Perhaps there could be an email address where images with source information could be sent, or a page where people can post links to their images, assuming they're on the web.
If our problem is a firehose of images coming in that we can't deal with, then it makes sense to restrict that to a more manageable stream until we can develop processes for dealing with massive unrestricted uploads.
Steve
On 5/3/06, Gallagher Mark George m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
Frankly, the number of dodgy images uploaded by irresponsible, selfish or just downright stupid people every day is enough to make one break down and gibber in terror. The last thing we want to do is inflict our problems on Commons ...
Agreed. I'm about *this* far from accidentally modifying OrphanBot to remove every image uploaded by someone with fewer than a hundred edits.
-- Mark [[User:Carnildo]]
On 5/3/06, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/3/06, Gallagher Mark George m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
Frankly, the number of dodgy images uploaded by irresponsible, selfish or just downright stupid people every day is enough to make one break down and gibber in terror. The last thing we want to do is inflict our problems on Commons ...
Agreed. I'm about *this* far from accidentally modifying OrphanBot to remove every image uploaded by someone with fewer than a hundred edits.
-- Mark [[User:Carnildo]]
Can you come up with a way of modifying it to kill everything that comes from playboy?
-- geni