No. This is a very bad idea. Noraltemits is ""NOT"" possible for all user do to 
seurety reasons. It is wasting of traffic and resources. Pleas read the 
shellpolicy.

Regards,


> From: [email protected]
> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 15:00:43 +0200
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Glamtools] Open GWT to all Commons users
> 
> 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
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