On 29/06/06, Stan Shebs <shebs(a)apple.com> wrote:
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
* Many people won't be uploading images if it
requires email registration
Please please please let it be so! After having to mark several
thousand bad uploads for deletion, and realizing it was just a
tiny percentage of the total problem, I'd agree to anything that
would stop the deluge of sh!t.
I think it's hard for people who haven't worked on image cleanup
to realize how much grunt work is created by the hundreds and
sometimes thousands of bad uploads that accumulate each and every day.
I have to agree. Image contributions are not equivalent to text
contributions at all. While many people who are ignorant of copyright
can make non-copyvio text contributions it seems impossible for them
to make non-copyvio image contributions.
As for requiring email address... eh. They are typically just as
throwaway as a wiki account. I have no problem with the current method
of deleting with extreme prejudice. By deleting such images WP is not
missing much.
It depends if you want to implement this as a way of verifying
licenses (I don't think it will help with this), or as a way to slow
down image uploaders (it will slow them down, but I think it's a bit
underhanded). Now what would be REALLY good to slow down problem
uploaders would be if we could block users from uploading, only ( see
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4995 , my baby!). Seems
like it could be really handy on en.wp too. Because copyvio image
users do not also tend to be copyvio text users, that's my
observation.
cheers,
Brianna
en.wp,commons:User:pfctdayelise