Is the shortage of admins due to a lack of people willing or capable to do the job, or increasing difficulty in obtaining the bit?
On May 12, 2019, at 3:55 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
Well, Actually, at the moment it looks they are all undeleted.
The good habit - which I was keeping when organizing several GLAM-related mass uploads - was to create on Commons project page describing what it is intended to be uploaded, preferably in English. Then you can create a project template to mark all uploads with them.
See: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Partnerships
Despite practical issue of avoiding unnecessary clashes with Common's admins - creating template and project page helps to promote you project across Wikimedia communities and may inspire others to do something similar.
Commons is indeed quite hostile environment for uploaders, but on the other hand it is constantly flooded by hundreds of copyright violating files a day:
See the list from just one day:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/2019/05/01
so this hostility works both ways - Common's admins have to cope with aggressive hostile copyright violators every day, and after some time - decide to leave or became being hostile themselves... and the other issue is decreasing number of active admins and OTRS agents.
I think - sooner or later - all this system - uploads - screening uploads by admins, and OTRS agreements - needs deep rethinking.
niedz., 12 maj 2019 o 10:48 Mister Thrapostibongles < thrapostibongles@gmail.com> napisał(a):
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_Comm...
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?
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