On 24 February 2014 20:51, Galileo Vidoni galio2k@gmail.com wrote:
However, over the last months certain Wikimedia Commons administrators have conducted massive deletions of these contents, in many cases involving entire categories. The burden of proof has been inverted: instead of having to justify the deletion of a certain file, things go that volunteers have to devout their time trying to justify the validity of their efforts. This has caused great damage, not only by way of our readers loosing access to free educational contents, but also de-motivating many editors and volunteers by making them feel that their efforts are ultimately vain and that our goal of free knowledge for everyone is being replaced by a certain legal fetishism whose reason gets lost in processes and misses the outcome.
This strongly suggests that URAA is a good reason to deprecate Commons, and have language wikis self-host images that fail the more unduly stringent requirements Commons is manifesting these days.
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