Done, Cheers, Peter -----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Aron Manning Sent: 15 August 2019 07:01 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!
Peter, this is a very thoughtful suggestion. I'm not sure the WG members will see it here, maybe you could post on the talk page? I haven't seen it there. Aron On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 12:00, Peter Southwood <peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > One way to make it very clear is to have a separate project for non-free > and pseudo-free media. Keep it off Commons altogether, so Commonists have > no new problems, and to use it on a project would require specific > permission by that project, so that Commons is not the only repository that > can be used. Keep Commons the default, and make it necessary to use a > prefix to use the not-so-free media files, so it is quite clear that they > are different. If it is all on Commons, people will be sneaking it onto > projects where it is not allowed, making yet more maintenance work for > volunteers who might prefer to spend their time creating and improving > valid content. To make it less of a hassle, the upload wizard could > automatically switch to the alternative project if any of a specific range > of licences were to be used, with an explanation of why the file could not > be stored on Commons. > Cheers, > Peter > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
