On 17 June 2014 20:53, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
The opportunity exist to have all this data in one "multimedia Wikidata". It would mean that when a Commons admin decides for his reasons that a file is no longer available, that a local admin can address his reasons and decide that it is available for his project. When a file is marked ad being available for transfer, it is technically only a different setting about that media file. I would not be surprised when in the technical infrastructure a file exists only once anyway.
I predict this will be unacceptable to Commons admins. The reasons advanced will be legal fears. (The actual reasons will be loss of power for Commons admins banned on a pile of other projects.)
- d.