On 28 February 2014 01:23, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 February 2014 22:03, Galileo Vidoni galio2k@gmail.com wrote:
And we remain convinced that there is space for a way more prudent implementation of URAA that prevents deleting educational resources until there is complete copyright information and no legal alternative, which to our understanding (and to our interpretation of WMF's communications) can mean waiting for DMCA takedown notices.
We could do that but it pretty much removes commons only advantage over say imgur or flickr. We want the images on commons to be free. Not simply stuff no one has got around to complaining about yet,
This supports what I noted: Commons increasingly just can't be relied upon as a repository for the other Wikimedia projects.
This implies no bad faith or bad actions on the part of the Commons community. (But that that's a distinct thing from the Wikimedia community is a lot of the problem.) Nor that what Commons *is* is inherently problematic; but what it is is less and less useful inside Wikimedia.
- d.