As a reminder, if files are to be deleted from Wikimedia Commons, this only happens by discussion and administrative action on Wikimedia Commons.
Roundtable discussion may be interesting, but this is not how decisions are made in our community. If you have notes or minutes of this closed meeting, please publish them so the Wikimedia community can benefit. In the meantime if anyone would like to contribute to a discussion that may result in the images being removed, please follow this link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Leg...
All are welcome to express their views.
Thanks, Fae
On 27 July 2015 at 14:59, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I had a roundtable discussion last night with some Wikimedians and other sympathizers, and was persuaded that the best way to handle this matter might indeed be for the community to delete the files in question and/or to block the uploader for alleged bad-faith behavior. This still leaves me wondering if WMF Legal could be involved in the legal defense of the reusers if they acted in good faith in attempting to comply with the license terms as they understood them on Commons.
Regarding Jan-Bart's point, I was thinking in the context of WMF's $68 million budget and specifically of the reactive capacity that is built in; it seems to me that attention to this situation is a good use of that reactive capacity with a de minimis effect on the big picture in terms of cost. But I should have chosen my words more carefully, and I agree with Jan-Bart that some community (and WMF) requests and demands for other people's time can be excessively resource-intensive, particularly regarding use of volunteer time.
Thanks,
Pine