On 01/09/2014, Marc A. Pelletier marc@uberbox.org wrote: ...
metadata. It's not an argument against MV, it's an argument for getting rid of the horrid way we handle File: pages with ad-hoc workarounds. The *correct* solution is to fix the damn image pages, not to remove MV.
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So, can you link me to a positive proposal to do the elemental foundation of this, and point to a realistic (and Foundation supported) proposal to the community to standardize licence templates on Commons?
Do this and you are most of the way there.
As someone who has uploaded 400,000 images to Commons with a variety of licences, I would welcome this proposal rather than doing it the wrong way around. Right now a rationale of blaming underpinning infrastructure not being ready for MV, after rolling it out, looks like setting your house on fire in order to give your husband sufficient motivation to check the smoke alarm.
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