[Foundation-l] RfC: Draft licensing policy resolution

[Brianna Laugher]

Effeietsanders hit on all the major reasons a project might want or
not want to move to Commons-only upoads. I do plan to write a guide on
Commons called something like 'Turning off local uploads', with advice
for projects about how to make this transition smoothly. But I haven't
written it yet.

For people who think Commons is 'not being nice'... please write to me
PRIVATELY and I will seriously do everything I can to solve problems
you have had or are having, and improve relations between your project
and Commons. I really consider that is very important for Commons and
will take what you say seriously. I am always open on that front.

Anyway, here is the first step towards 'Commons-only' uploads, for
those who are interested: point your upload link on the sidebar to a
page [[Project:Upload]] instead of [[Special:Upload]]. Then on this
page you can explain about source, licensing, copyright, direct people
to Commons if they want.

All the projects that I have heard of implementing this experienced
BIG, significant drops in  upoads and copyvio uploads. Like, 1/2 as
many afterwards. That is a big saving in admin maintenance work, even
if you don't ever want to go to Commons-only. So I strongly recommend
it.

Some projects who have done this:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide:Importer_un_fichier
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Upload
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1
(I know there are more...)


cheers
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise



On 21/02/07, effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, in your language it might be possible that some people do not like
> english. So that might be a reason. And some people think commons is not
> being nice, that might be a reason too. And some people think commons is too
> big, and it is impossible to find out the procedures, while you know them on
> youw own project. That might be a reason too. But there are of course as
> well reasons to move it to commons, such as you can scratch a bit of policy
> locally, you make the images available for every project, in time you save
> WMF-diskspace etc.
>
> Lodewijk
>
> 2007/2/20, Bence Damokos <bdamokos at gmail.com>:
> >
...
> > And if there is no EDP, is there any point in uploading locally and not to
> > Commons directly? (Except the usual, that Commons couldn't handle the
> > influx
> > of new users, or that its unconvenient unless there is Single User Login)