By the way, such images would not qualify for WLM anyway, since they are copyvios.
Such files are not copyvios. They are distributed under free license, and the only exception is that they should not be used commercially. These photos are actively used outside Commons, as you can see from the fact that we have transferred to other projects as many as 1280 photos last year and already 300 photos this year. Most of these photos are of very high quality, and we are really proud that we got them. The copyright on art objects will expire in 5-10-20 years (fair-use rules apply during this period). We will still have these photos when copyright expires, while on Commons the files are lost forever.
We struggle to collect and keep free and useful knowledge, while Commons users actively struggle against it. This situation illustrates very clearly what our goals are and what Commons goals are. I believe that we should try to avoid any interaction with this deeply corrupted project.
An immediate repercussion of this situation is that I am not going to spend any more of my time on anything related to Commons. In the last 3 years, I have put a lot of effort into writing categorization scripts that processed about 10000 uncategorized images uploaded during WLM every year. Now I will let User:Jcb, Nahid Sultan and other advocates of file deletions to do this dirty and tedious job. Enough is enough.
On a longer run, we will try to organize Russian WLM completely outside Commons. It is not imperative to collect free images on Commons. We will find better place for them in other projects.
Sincerely, Alexander
On 14.09.2016 20:50, Marco Chiesa wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru wrote:
The files have been deleted, meaning we will advise WLM participants not to use Commons anymore.
By the way, such images would not qualify for WLM anyway, since they are copyvios. Cruccone
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