[Foundation-l] Commons request for a delinker tool running in every wiki

[Daniel Arnold]

Am Samstag, 23. September 2006 00:13 schrieb Erik Moeller:
>
> I don't think the WMF needs to get legally involved in this. Would it
> be reasonable to just run the bot (since it shouldn't have a bot flag
> anyway) and ask communities to block it if they find it unreasonable?

The bot in itself is not a legal issue. We just call for support as this is 
something which affects all Wikimedia wikis and is thus of general 
importance. And of course it's going to be much more easier if the Foundation 
supports this especially given the fact that we all know how wired people can 
react sometimes.

Given the fact that ensuring of free content policies is one of the *key 
missions* of the Wikimedia Foundation and CommonsDelinker is something that 
clearly adresses this topic (via a much more efficient copyvio deletion with 
less negative side effects for local wikis at the same time) I think it is 
appropriate calling for a support note.

And lets not forget: This tool will touch Foundation affairs too: like Meta 
wiki, Wikimania wikis, Foundation wiki, although the probability that this 
tool will need to remove something there is much lower than in other wikis 
but not zero.

By the way: The Foundation wikis need a CommonsTicker. Why? Well you all 
remember some troubles with random people overwriting logos and such. We 
Commons admins simply don't have the time watching over every file alone. 
CommonsTicker would enable you being alerted quickly on overwrite, suggested 
deletion and so forth of any logo, image, media file that is important to the 
Foundation directly. You will be surprised how much changes in Commons will 
affect Foundation wikis directly.  Many other Wikimedia wikis can confirm 
this because they got used to CommonsTicker.

Wouldn't it be cool to be informed in advance that something needs your 
attention? It would save us all a lot of frustration:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Duesentrieb/CommonsTicker

Cheers, Arnomane