On 24 February 2014 20:51, Galileo Vidoni <gali...@gmail.com> wrote: > However, over the last months certain Wikimedia Commons administrators have > conducted massive deletions of these contents, in many cases involving > entire categories. The burden of proof has been inverted: instead of having > to justify the deletion of a certain file, things go that volunteers have > to devout their time trying to justify the validity of their efforts. This > has caused great damage, not only by way of our readers loosing access to > free educational contents, but also de-motivating many editors and > volunteers by making them feel that their efforts are ultimately vain and > that our goal of free knowledge for everyone is being replaced by a certain > legal fetishism whose reason gets lost in processes and misses the outcome.
This strongly suggests that URAA is a good reason to deprecate Commons, and have language wikis self-host images that fail the more unduly stringent requirements Commons is manifesting these days. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
