Well,
I think the answer for the question for what Commons stands for should be
repeated. Some say images you upload there, should find a use in Wikipedia.
But is that a truth? Other time you hear, images should be usefull for
educational purposes. On the main page, I can just see a statement "a
database of 27,041,767
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics> freely usable
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia>
media files" which does not explain what kind of media and if there are any
limitations.
Sometimes people uploads theri collection and someone tends to delete it of
being out of scope. Other times we uploads thousands of archive pictures
from GLAM, where the majority of these imagase does not have inmediate use
in WMF projects.
Juan
2015-08-01 13:36 GMT+02:00 Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com>om>:
With regard to uploads from mobiles, there have been
several positive
discussions on the Commons village pump when mobile applications
encouraged uploads.[1]
It is still the case that the significant majority of images uploaded
from mobile platforms have to be deleted as either out of scope (like
bad blurry selfies) or obvious copyright violations. We even have some
bot-categorization of deletions quietly going on to keep a running
track of it, and several past experiments to find ways of managing
copyvios automatically, shortly after they appear in recent
uploads.[2]
As tablets with good cameras and more sophisticated mobiles are used
to do more stuff on Wikimedia projects, the trend is improving, but
the design challenge remains that mobile apps to which make upload
easier need to also encourage upload 'qualification' to reduce the
burden on volunteer administrators to do endless housekeeping, and
mobile users need coaching/coaxing to consider copyright and
educational value before launching their selfies and lolcats on
Commons. :-)
Links:
1. Sample past VP discussion:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2013/04#Mob…
,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2013/04#Pro…
2.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MobileUpload-related_deletion_r…
Fae
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