Hello all,
There seems to be a dispute between the Outreach and the Commons components
of The Community, judging by the article "Wikimedia Commons: a highly
hostile place for multimedia students contributions" at the Education
Newsletter
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/April_2019/Wikimedia_Com…
As far as I can understand it, some students on an Outreach project
uploaded some rather well-made video material, and comeone on Commons
deleted them because they appeared to well-made to be student projects and
so concluded they were copyright violations. But some rather odd remarks
were made "Commons has to fight the endless stream of uploaded copyrighted
content on behalf of a headquarters in San Francisco that doesn't care." and
"you have regarded Commons as little more than free cloud storage for
images you intend to use on Wikipedia ".
Perhaps the Foundation needs to resolve this dispute?
Thrapostibongles