http://meta.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=special:Upload
Yikes! I just checked some of the newer meta uploads and came across some rather humorous, yet totally inappropriate and copyright infringing, toon porn along with other rubbish. For some reason I can't log-in to the meta so I don't know if I have sysop powers there (I probably don't). Can somebody who does have such powers delete this stuff?
It also might be a good idea to grant sysop's the ability to do their thing over at the meta too -- just to prevent this sort of thing from getting out of control (there would be little reason to delete or move many, if any, pages pages there, but being able to delete inappropriate uploads would be nice).
BTW, is it really necessary to have two upload utilities in the first place? Both upload pages have instructions in English and do the same thing. Shouldn't we have one central upload utility for the whole project with maybe a couple of other ones for each of the most active non-English wikipedias that have syops of their own?
maveric149
At 05:22 PM 6/15/02 -0700, you wrote:
BTW, is it really necessary to have two upload utilities in the first place? Both upload pages have instructions in English and do the same thing. Shouldn't we have one central upload utility for the whole project with maybe a couple of other ones for each of the most active non-English wikipedias that have syops of their own?
If it's not too inefficient and space-consuming, I would personally prefer to see each wiki have its own entirely separate upload space. That way it will be much easier to keep things tidy. As it stands, I'm paranoid about deleting stuff from Uploads because even if it isn't used _here_, it might still be used on one of the other language wikis. I imagine such links wouldn't show up in any future "what pages link this image?" function, either.
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On sab, 2002-06-15 at 17:45, Bryan Derksen wrote:
At 05:22 PM 6/15/02 -0700, you wrote:
BTW, is it really necessary to have two upload utilities in the first place? Both upload pages have instructions in English and do the same thing. Shouldn't we have one central upload utility for the whole project with maybe a couple of other ones for each of the most active non-English wikipedias that have syops of their own?
If it's not too inefficient and space-consuming, I would personally prefer to see each wiki have its own entirely separate upload space. That way it will be much easier to keep things tidy.
That's how it would work, if the non-English wikipedias were already converted to the new software, like some of us were promised months ago. Since this has been delayed and delayed and delayed, everybody has to use the common upload spaces.
However, a lot of stuff can easily be shared between wikis -- photographs, some maps and graphs that don't contain language-dependent text. We can't _force_ people to upload ten copies of the same thing, and I'm not sure we ought to.
Personally, I upload things that are appropriate for an English-language article to the English wiki (textless images, images with English text, sound files that are samples of other languages suitable for an article _about_ that language), and anything else to the meta wiki.
As it stands, I'm paranoid about deleting stuff from Uploads because even if it isn't used _here_, it might still be used on one of the other language wikis.
Anything uploaded by an unknown user without a filled-in description field in the log (in English or otherwise) is fair game for deletion as far as I'm concerned. (Of course, that doesn't apply to meta, which is running an old version of the software without the description field in the upload form.)
I imagine such links wouldn't show up in any future "what pages link this image?" function, either.
Not without more integration between the databases than is currently available, no.
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