On 17 June 2014 20:53, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The opportunity exist to have all this data in one "multimedia Wikidata".
> It would mean that when a Commons admin decides for his reasons that a file
> is no longer available, that a local admin can address his reasons and
> decide that it is available for his project. When a file is marked ad being
> available for transfer, it is technically only a different setting about
> that media file. I would not be surprised when in the technical
> infrastructure a file exists only once anyway.


I predict this will be unacceptable to Commons admins. The reasons
advanced will be legal fears. (The actual reasons will be loss of
power for Commons admins banned on a pile of other projects.)


- d.

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