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%…
(I know there are more...)
cheers
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise
On 21/02/07, effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)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(a)gmail.com>om>:
>
...
> 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)