Thanks for your replies. We'll surely take the French precedent into account if Commons' admins fail to reconsider the current policies and we propose hosting images on the Spanish Wikipedia. By the way, I forgot to mention that we've also published this letter on Meta and that there's also an ongoing discussion there: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Argentina/Open_letter_regardi...
Best,
Galileo
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Yann Forget yannfo@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
2014-02-26 16:01 GMT+05:30 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
On 24 February 2014 20:51, Galileo Vidoni galio2k@gmail.com wrote:
However, over the last months certain Wikimedia Commons administrators
have
conducted massive deletions of these contents, in many cases involving entire categories. The burden of proof has been inverted: instead of
having
to justify the deletion of a certain file, things go that volunteers
have
to devout their time trying to justify the validity of their efforts.
This
has caused great damage, not only by way of our readers loosing access
to
free educational contents, but also de-motivating many editors and volunteers by making them feel that their efforts are ultimately vain
and
that our goal of free knowledge for everyone is being replaced by a
certain
legal fetishism whose reason gets lost in processes and misses the
outcome.
This strongly suggests that URAA is a good reason to deprecate Commons, and have language wikis self-host images that fail the more unduly stringent requirements Commons is manifesting these days.
If only some Commons admins were not pursuing a political campaign to delete all these under false pretences, everything would be much better.
Regards,
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