Hello Emmanuel, i think it is a good idea to open the GWT to all Commons users. But I think a limit to ten files is not a good idea. Ten files can be easily uploaded with the current wizard. If we want to limit it, it should be 100 files. This should work for active photographs. And we can limit it to users who have already uploaded several files to avoid that a new sock puppet can misuse the tool.
I would prefer to have no limitation. If somebody misuses the tools than there are administrators who can block that user. Maybe we need a easy rollback function for administrators to rollback such an bad upload of several unwanted files and the possibility to delete that pictures permanently. Best regards, Micha > Am 27.04.2014 um 14:39 schrieb Emmanuel Engelhart > <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > Currently on Commons, the access to the GWT is limited to a small group of > "happy fews" (who have the GWT permission). > > Becoming a part of this group seems to be difficult, even for prominent > players of our community: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bureaucrats%27_noticeboard#GWToolset_right_for_CH_accounts > > To my opinion, we have nothing to loose (and maybe a lot to win) by opening > the GWT to all Commons users. This is the way we use to work and what makes > us successful. I don't see why we should proceed differently here. > > AFAIK, the only risk of this move would be to be flooded by inadequate files. > That's why we should maybe limit the number of parallel GWT downloads to 1 or > limit the overall number of uploads to 10 per XML file for non-GWT permitted > users. An other solution would be to adapt current admin tools to allow them > to efficiently deal with this new kind of challenges. > > Do you see any other risk? > > Regards > Emmanuel > -- > Volunteer > Technology, GLAM, Trainings > Zurich > +41 797 670 398 _______________________________________________ Glamtools mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools
