Are Commons admins approved temporarily? I know some Wikipedias (including
Hebrew) don't have permanent adminship and re-approve admins every once in
a while, but it's probably a disastrous policy for Commons if it's the case.
Anyway, as much as I am surprised that no top WLM organizer is a Commons
admin (although there's clearly at least one admin on this mailing list),
it's possible to get around this, although not easy. Lily has a good
channel to the WMF and most of us are long-time users who know many others
+ many developers. The solution can be technical, and it can come from the
WLM: perhaps a new user group that can only see historical revisions and
restore without some of the other admin rights, perhaps an options to
archive images that "need" to be deleted on groups of Commons policy, but
aren't opposed by the foundation's legal team (might be a solution for URAA
images as well), etc.
I know that many in the community don't want any WMF interference, and the
WMF wants to repair community ties—both are completely understandable. I
don't want to suggest that we should interfere with these processes, but do
think we can implement some kind of solution on the side. After all, WLM is
a big project that costs a ton of resources. Just in terms of money, the
WMF (or sometimes local donations) funds it with tens of thousands of
dollars, directly or indirectly. It's therefore worth investing a little
bit more to technically support projects like WLM.
—Yan (Ynhockey).
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
WereSpielChequers, 31/01/2017 09:39:
I'm not an admin on commons, but where I am
an admin it would be
expected that you would check the history of a file before deleting it.
It's expected on Commons too, see <https://commons.wikimedia.org
/wiki/Commons:Deletion_policy#Speedy_deletion>.
When mistakes happen on Commons, we're sometimes too quick at
generalising. Currently Commons has issues with one or two rampant admins
who make semi-random deletions en masse (and even edit war on deletion
requests). Hopefully the situation is temporary.
Nemo
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