Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons

Yes, agreed. I also actively avoid using Commons sometimes, because the average life expectancy of a freely-licensed image is... shorter than one would hope. If only for efficiency's sake, we absolutely need somewhere for newbies to upload images which " 1a) won't be deleted out of hand 1b) won't be deleted simply for lack of demonstration of notability or bulletproof (c) clearance, when it's reasonable to guess that the uploader may have such rights 1c) won't be deleted after being used on other projects, without an explicit takedown request (but may be hidden, as per d) 1d) conversely, won't be made easily accessible for transclusion on other projects until issues are resolved, or can easily be 'hidden' from transclusion by a templated concern, while not deleting the upload so that there is no longer a place to discuss + resolve And we should also have 2a) a cross-wiki space for images used on any project, under whatever license, that don't fit current Commons policy 2b) ...that may require a more explicit method of calling the files to include them, so they can't be accidentally used in an inappropriate context. 1 and 2 don't have to be Commons itself. That would be a conceptually simple solution, but they could also be a separate project, with bots that migrate things to Commons once current C-policies are fully satisfied. On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 12:48 PM Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266