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

[Erica Flynn]

In my opinion there are 2 basic problems with images:
1. Image copyright and various Wikimedia policies are very complicated. Most
people have no understanding of them or don't even know they exist.
2. (A lesser problem), people who just upload pictures of themselves for the
heck of it, with or without malicious intent. This includes vandals and
people who want a free webhost.

I'm an admin on en:wp and have done a fair share of image cleanup. But even
after reading the image policy pages multiple times, I still feel like I
only have maybe a 40% grasp on all the concepts. I don't think we can or
should make image policy "simpler" (for legal or whatever other
reasons), and I don't have any quick answers. We just have to remain
vigilant and fix the problems as they arise. That said, if anyone has ideas
I'm all ears. The image delete backlogs are always huge.

Erica
User:Fang Aili on various Wikimedia




On 11/14/06, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Is it 90%?  I haven't seen anyone actually define what
> the problem is on foundation-l at least.  Is it images
> with no info, or false info?   Or is just that the new
> users aren't using Commons category system unrelated
> to copyright?  I tried to read the Commons-l archive
> to catch up, but I am still unclear on what scope of
> the problem is.  Does anyone actually have numbers?
>
> Without really knowing the situation, I would say that
> I believe all communities struggle to keep up on these
> things.  Everyone has backlogs they are working
> through and these things happen in cycles.  One month
> you make great progress, another month things are
> overwhelming and ground is lost.  Perhaps threatening
> drastic action is a good way to draw attention and
> hopefully solutions when the situation gets
> particularly bad.  However I think it would really be
> useful to talk about the real numbers in this
> situation. How much worse is it than what others are
> dealing with?
>
> Birgitte SB
>