Hoi,
The first project that will be Wikidatified is Commons. The reasons to do
this are functional. Commons is not usable when you want to find something
that it there. When you do not know English, it is a black hole.
What arguments are there to deny this? Obviously, there are many reasons to
ignore this. The most important reason why we need to Wikidatify Commons is
to make sure that it can be used by all our projects. Denying this to
happen is denying the core functionality of Commons. Legalities only happen
once you have something that is functional
Thanks,
GerardM
On 17 June 2014 22:06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 17 June 2014 20:53, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The opportunity exist to have all this data in
one "multimedia Wikidata".
It would mean that when a Commons admin decides for his reasons that a
file
is no longer available, that a local admin can
address his reasons and
decide that it is available for his project. When a file is marked ad
being
available for transfer, it is technically only a
different setting about
that media file. I would not be surprised when in the technical
infrastructure a file exists only once anyway.
I predict this will be unacceptable to Commons admins. The reasons
advanced will be legal fears. (The actual reasons will be loss of
power for Commons admins banned on a pile of other projects.)
- d.
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