Is anybody willing to pursue having the Flickr upload wizard enabled for everybody? I really don't want to port over my tool when the Toolserver shuts down.
Bryan On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Steven Walling <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 1. It makes it easy for anyone to import hundreds of images from Flickr >> (via Photoset importing), which could mean a big increase in Flickr-washing >> problems (i.e. unintentional copyvios). >> 2. The feature still has some bugs ( >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43450) and no one is >> actively maintaining it at the moment (although hopefully the new >> Multimedia team will be assuming that responsibility). >> > > Neither of these things seem like legit blockers at all. > > You can make the same exact arguments against letting anyone upload > anything. Bad shit happens sometimes with malicious uploads, but we assume > good faith. Also, there are bugs, but that has nothing to do with whether > non-admins want to/should be able to upload from Flickr. When it works, > this tool is amazingly helpful, and should be more widely available. > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > >
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