Hoi, Improving of the 'quality' of pictures is not in and of itself something that is not without controversy. There have been fierce fights in the past over exactly this subject and there are a great many people that do not upload to Commons as a result.
The notion that there is software that allows you to improve pictures needs to be handled with caution. I have seen tragic attempts of improvement that were anything but. It is nice to have tools that allow you to work on pictures, it needs judgement to know when to do this. Giving the possibility to overwrite existing pictures to everyone is imho NOT a good idea.
Thanks, GerardM
On 8/13/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/13/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/12/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
You also need to set this to true: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgAllowCopyUploads
Ah, yes, so you do.
Whoa. this is news to me. :) so is it actually enabled or not?
Seemingly not, testing on mediawiki.org (where I'm a sysop). But it could be enabled.
How hard would it be to put a whitelist in place? That is, allowing anyone (logged in) to copy-upload files, as long as they came from a certain site. Allowing only admins to copy-upload doesn't really help with picnik integration.
Steve
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