On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, This problem is not new. It is not as if the Commons community is not aware of this perception. The perception that there might be a situation where someone is sued is not necessary shared by lawyers. They have to make a living as well so they will sue when they are paid to do so.
When people complain that Commonists go to far in what they do and their only defence is "you are demotivating me" than that is exactly what needs to be done. They need to be demotivated to go berserk with their misguided interpretation of copyright. When some hotheads leave the building, it will lower the temperature and we can start to talk.
Commons is not the only project that serves the whole of our communities. Wikidata is another. I regularly find images for people that are not moved to Commons because Commons is not trusted. Now that pisses me off terribly and it sours my appreciation of Commons. As it is, Commons is not trusted and not discussing this only puts this discussion further back with even more ill feelings and even less appreciation for the people who do good work at Commons. They are ultimately the people who suffer the most.
And the same is said and done regarding Wikidata , which client projects are very skeptical about trusting to hold data. Wikidata also has its own copyright issues. If Wikipedia data is migrated to Wikidata, and it is determined that Wikidata violations database copyrights (whereas Wikipedia may not have), we have to migrate all the data back. Exactly the same as Commons. Yet you've been a proponent of Wikidata ignoring these database copyright issues.
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/03/wikipedia-and-impact-factor-of-na...
Wikidata also has quality control issues that will mean it is going to take a lot of work to clean up the data it contains in order to become reliable. e.g. in the last few days you've created items and labelled them as 'instance of human' , when they are not humans. :/
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q18615764&action=history https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q18601263&action=history
Your response when this exact same problem has been discussed several times is, if I can paraphrase, .. you do so many edits that you believe it is someone elses job to fix the small percentage of errors caused by your hyper-productivity. That works in theory in large wikis, but doesnt work so well when the vast majority of new Wikidata content is added by simplistic bots and humans doing similarly large batches of semi-automated edits.
-- John Vandenberg