[WikiEN-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread George Herbert
I have just had to deal with this - AGAIN - and would like to rail for a moment, hoping to provoke discussion to promote change. I posit that this is big enough to deserve a Foundation-wide venue for initial discussion so am including Wikitech-L. Most of us are probably familiar with the cycle:

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread George Herbert
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote: Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on Commons... No coding needed at all. This right here. It should be trivial to

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread David Gerard
On 5 August 2013 08:53, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: I put wikien-l back in the cc list as these are non-technical proposals and would require ... I guess, commons process. I don't know what the commons list is, and am not on it to be able to post to it. commons-l, but the

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread George Herbert
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:54 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 August 2013 08:43, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote: Suggestion 3: Restore the file on en.wiki if it gets deleted on Commons... No

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread geni
On 5 August 2013 08:36, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: These are not the only two possible solutions, but they come to mind immediately (and have previously when I thought of this). Additional fix concepts solicited and welcomed.

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread George Herbert
Do you want to apply that to all millionish of our local media files, or do you want me to? (ducks) George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone On Aug 5, 2013, at 5:05 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 August 2013 08:36, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: These are

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

2013-08-05 Thread Alan Liefting
On 5/08/2013 7:36 p.m., George Herbert wrote: I have just had to deal with this - AGAIN - and would like to rail for a moment, hoping to provoke discussion to promote change. I posit that this is big enough to deserve a Foundation-wide venue for initial discussion so am including Wikitech-L.