[WikiEN-l] Re: Vandalism concerns with commons images

[Claus Färber]

David Benbennick <dbenbenn at gmail.com> schrieb/wrote:
> On 9/12/05, uninvited at nerstrand.net
> <uninvited at nerstrand.net> wrote:
>> Images hosted on commons cannot be protected by admins from
>> en.wikipedia.

> An admin on EN need simply download the image, upload it to EN, and
> protect.  We even have a template,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:C-uploaded, for this issue.

A technical solution where protecting an image from Commons on another  
Wikimedia project "just works" would be better.
I.e. MediaWiki should automatically create a local copy when an image  
from Commons is protected and delete if when the protection is lifted.

Claus
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