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).
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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I've
told
Jcb about this discussion, reminded them to check for license
blanking vandalism and asked if they can check the deleted edits of the
license blanker in case they were able to get any other files deleted
that way.
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.
WSC