On 12/12/14 03:40, Steven Walling wrote:
Commons should really just have stayed a database shared among projects, not been made into a wiki where all our more important projects are subject to the rules mongering of a tiny broken community.
I don't know what that would technically look like. Commons was always a wiki with a community and a mission, it has never been just a database, so there is no obvious precedent to follow. If you have a central repository, then you at least need someone to review uploads.
It would be technically trivial to make a second central image repository wiki, explicitly for fair use images. So maybe that is a solution.
-- Tim Starling