[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Principles of organisation - who do we serve?

[Brad Patrick]

Or, the es.wp users are all not aware of the restrictions on what is
acceptable. Your earlier post appeared to support the es.wp position.
This is a problem that should be handled at the source, not creating
better tools to fix what should not be happening in the first place.
If, say, 90% of the material being uploaded is against the grain, why
should we not try to fix the problem at the source?  We are clearly
not doing a good enough job explaning what is okay and what is not if
this kind of situation has evolved.

On 11/14/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14/11/06, Brad Patrick <bradp.wmf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Commons exists to be a repository for free culture *and* to serve as
> > an inter-wiki storage medium for *free* media.  it is not a place to
> > dump stuff, nor is it a place which exists independently of other
> > wikis.
> > Copyright violations are not a minor or trivial problem.  They are a
> > serious problem, for which we are obligated to act when they are
> > properly brought to our attention.  This is all nothing new.
> > If there are Wikimedians who are advocating housing copyrighted media
> > in Commons, speak up now, because we need to get clear on why that is
> > not cool immediately.
>
>
> There isn't anyone advocating that; this discussion started with a
> Commons admin threatening to block all es:wp users from Commons to
> stop copyvios from es:wp, because the Commons admins can't keep up,
> evidently because their admin process is strict enough that pretty
> much no-one even bothers trying.
>
>
> - d.
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Brad Patrick
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