Effeietsanders hit on all the major reasons a project might want or not want to move to Commons-only upoads. I do plan to write a guide on Commons called something like 'Turning off local uploads', with advice for projects about how to make this transition smoothly. But I haven't written it yet.
For people who think Commons is 'not being nice'... please write to me PRIVATELY and I will seriously do everything I can to solve problems you have had or are having, and improve relations between your project and Commons. I really consider that is very important for Commons and will take what you say seriously. I am always open on that front.
Anyway, here is the first step towards 'Commons-only' uploads, for those who are interested: point your upload link on the sidebar to a page [[Project:Upload]] instead of [[Special:Upload]]. Then on this page you can explain about source, licensing, copyright, direct people to Commons if they want.
All the projects that I have heard of implementing this experienced BIG, significant drops in upoads and copyvio uploads. Like, 1/2 as many afterwards. That is a big saving in admin maintenance work, even if you don't ever want to go to Commons-only. So I strongly recommend it.
Some projects who have done this: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide:Importer_un_fichier http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Upload http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8... (I know there are more...)
cheers Brianna user:pfctdayelise
On 21/02/07, effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com wrote:
Well, in your language it might be possible that some people do not like english. So that might be a reason. And some people think commons is not being nice, that might be a reason too. And some people think commons is too big, and it is impossible to find out the procedures, while you know them on youw own project. That might be a reason too. But there are of course as well reasons to move it to commons, such as you can scratch a bit of policy locally, you make the images available for every project, in time you save WMF-diskspace etc.
Lodewijk
2007/2/20, Bence Damokos bdamokos@gmail.com:
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And if there is no EDP, is there any point in uploading locally and not to Commons directly? (Except the usual, that Commons couldn't handle the influx of new users, or that its unconvenient unless there is Single User Login)