On 18/06/2014, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote: ...
A single editor in Commons can tweaks license information as much as it might be in Wikidata. Remember both Commons and Wikidata are wikis. It is likely that a property will be needed to reference an OTRS instance. Reasons why a file has issues will be as much be defined by properties and qualifiers. Really Fae, not much will change except that a Russian may view all this in Russian and a Brazilian in Portuguese.
Effectively the number of people who will be able to understand what is expressed will increase. More people will be able to find media files... Remember, that IS the objective isn't it?
With regard to your specific mention of OTRS tickets and identifying different licences for the same image (or derivatives) across projects, can you point to an example, or an agreed plan with a date for implementation on Wikidata? I know that Jarekt has worked hard on Commons licence identification, to my knowledge it is a far more complex issue than people might expect.
At the current time, I have yet to see how the Wikidata theoretical use improves finding images on Commons today. After regularly getting emails over the past two years raising expectations of how these problems will be solved through Wikidata, I have yet to be involved or invited to join any Commons based Wikidata project, despite being currently the most active unpaid volunteer uploader for Commons.
One of my particular interests was sorting out the Geograph project where I added meaningful place categories to images (around a million images). Last year I deliberately deferred continuing improvements and new uploads based on suggestions of how Wikidata was going to revolutionise the way this worked. As far as I am aware, there is still no published plan to help with identifying Commons categories with places using Wikidata; indeed for projects like our Avionics batch uploads (which rely on Airport categories and their locations) I have been told the opposite, to no longer expect, nor wait, for this to be sorted out and I am likely to revise my Geograph work without any plans to incorporate Wikidata, or work with Wikidata.
Fae