The whitelist is not for the community. Its out of concerns of malicious webservers attacking wmf servers (Personally I think that's a little paranoid, but that's the way it is). There's a bug about this somewhere in phabricator
-- Brian On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be interesting to make a proposal to the community that the > whitelist is dropped for some demonstrably good uploaders. I would have to > think about the case for dropping it all together, as GWT rights are often > granted to uploaders with virtually no long term history on Wikimedia > projects. In fact one feature of GWT is that it can be used by GLAM > professionals with no previous project experience, in particular may find > unexpected difficulties in handling community contention over their uploads. > > Fae > > On 15 November 2016 at 16:11, Steinsplitter Wiki > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> BTW: IMHO the whitelist stuff should be removed. I see no need to >> whitelist domains. We assume good faith, unlikely that a GWT user uploads >> tons of copyvios. >> >> >> Users have to apply for the right and then they have to whitelist the >> domain, too complicated. >> >> >> For example https://tools.wmflabs.org/url2commons/ has no restriction at >> all (as far i know), at least not a domain whitelist. >> >> >> --Steinsplitter >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Glamtools mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools > _______________________________________________ Glamtools mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools
