[Foundation-l] Commons and Portuguese Wikipedia

Luiz Augusto lugusto at gmail.com
Wed Nov 15 16:09:01 UTC 2006


Sorry for posting it in another thread, I subscribed back to this list only
to post this message: since the early of 2005 the Portuguese wikis invites
to all users upload files *only* in Commons, because Portuguese wikis accept
*only* free images.

The Portuguese Wikipedia has disabled new uploads because the civil war
started (and maintaned) by some users up today don't have produced a new
vote to review the copyright policy to allow ou permanently disallow fair
use images, resulting in a project that accept only free images with only a
small amount of sysops verifying if a image have source or not, and a
largest amount of sysops don't do anything related to this (and some users
mixing up the newbies saying something like "the source of origin from a
image isn't necessary if fair use is accepted")

In any case, the bug 7742 [1] isn't fully filled. The Portuguese community
has voted to disable new upload *and* replace the upload link by the link to
a help page explaing what is the Wikimedia Commons and how to use it.

[1] http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7742



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