Milimetric added a comment.
@Yurik, I agree that the majority seem to be supporting, but I think the opposing voices should be taken into consideration more carefully. I read some of the opposition and your replies, and I agree with you about the idea of releasing early and releasing often, but I think the bare bones release should consider this: "before allowing this type of uploads we need a full developed environment for this data in Commons regarding policies (scope etc.), categories, maintance tools (like filters etc.), help & orientation pages (for uploaders and maintainers), etc.. Btw: what about references to support the data or can just everybody throw his data to Commons? But the main question is: who in Commons will be able to additionally monitoring this kind of stuff? Not only the uploads itselfs but also all later modifications (typical edit by IP: "sales": 2.000 --> 200.000)? And: they (companies, marketing, spammers, POV's/COI's users etc.) will abuse in medium-term also this system, providing [fake/false] data for their "interests". IMHO, Commons in the past already suffered some mass-oriented "features" like Wikipedia Zero, cross-wiki uploads via local Visual Editor, mobile uploads, or whatever --> all mostly either grabbed from Internet or out of project scope (often detected only months or years later) — btw: currently, around +/- 30-40 % of daily deletion requests at Commons are already related only to "out of project scope", mostly involving "Commbook"-uploads from spammers and user pics from gals & guys who (will) never touch an wiki article, vomiting an user page on "their" wiki, thinking Commons = Facebook. The concept of "data uploads" may be interesting but ignores (among other things) the completely under-staffed [maintainer] user base in Commons and instead of trying to keep a (+/-) quality database of "free-use images, sound, and other media files" the whole thing is already turning (also regarding e.g. thousands of images grabbed & uploaded from social media) more and more into a random web hoster. Gunnex (talk) 20:05, 8 May 2016 (UTC)" I think this is mostly busy work and I'm happy to do it as one of the tasks on the new board you were going to set up. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124569 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Milimetric Cc: Danny_B, Thryduulf, Ricordisamoa, Bene, Micru, Yair_rand, Addshore, aude, hoo, JanZerebecki, MZMcBride, Lydia_Pintscher, tstarling, daniel, MaxSem, Tfinc, Milimetric, Aklapper, Yurik, StudiesWorld, D3r1ck01, Izno, Luke081515, Wikidata-bugs, fbstj, Mbch331, Jay8g _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
