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 > > -- > > Volunteer > > Technology, GLAM, Trainings > > Zurich > > +41 797 670 398 > > _______________________________________________ > Glamtools mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools
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