[Foundation-l] Building The Great Monument of Bureaucracy

[Tomasz Ganicz]

2009/11/22 Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>:
> Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
>> The
>> idea is to create a "Staging Area" - a wiki (or non-wiki) project
>> which is not public and can be used for media and meta-data mass
>> storage before sending the stuff to public projects. The idea is that
>> all permissions and other legal stuff would be carefully solved before
>> sending anything to Commons, so the mass contributors coming from
>> outside organisation would not need to cope with OTRS system.
>>
>
> It's hard to see how the problems of bureaucracy could be solved by
> establishing a meta-bureaucracy.
>

Very simply. If an organisation is going to make a project it will get
their own space on "Staging Area" and will upload their stuff there
without any legal problems. Then, one or more editors must examine
this stuff adding to it meta-data and resolve all legal problems
before sending it to Commons or any other WIkimedia project. The
formal agreements can be stored on "Staging Area" and be made visible
for OTRS volunteers. So instead of sending houndres of E-mails from
all contributors of the project there will be only one pointing to the
meta-data stored on Staging Area. Anyway, if you organize a mass
contributors project you must be sure that all contributors were
informed how free licences work, that their contribiutions can be used
for commercial purposes, that anyone can copy and modify it.

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