On 17 June 2014 21:06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
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.)
Not all of us are banned on other projects. In practice what is suggested is possible already. Per Resolution:Licensing policy local projects can have an exemption doctrine policy (incidentally does anyone know if there is a central list of these?) and upload stuff that can't be uploaded on commons.
As long as it doesn't then get transferred to commons this isn't a problem for commons.
The group it actually sucks for is OTRS. Dealing with copyright issues raised about the English Wikipedia is fairly straightforward. Commons is slightly harder but still doable. Finding admins from other projects presents more of a challenge.