Hoi,
I am really happy that we want to help the smaller Wikipedias with uploading
their pictures. It helps when it is made easy. One of the ways in which we
can make it easy is to reduce the number of choices involved. When the only
choice is cc-by-sa, we only need to explain one license.
When the software involved is properly localised in their language,
confusion will be a lot less. One of the ways that makes a big difference
to people is, when they know that a small number of messages provide exactl
functionality.. The WikiReader and the mobile Wikimedia experience point in
that direction. There are however two observations; it produces overhead at
translatewiki.net and it helps when you target people who are actively
translating for that language.
What you can do is make the local upload facility available once these
limited number of messages have been localised. In this way it is a reward
and not depended on an arbitrary number. When these messages are the same
messages as used for Commons itself ... When there are clear differences in
procedure local vis a vis Commons, it makes sense to have a document in
English that explains these differences.
To make it less problematic to move material to Commons, it might be an idea
when they can ask Commons admins / volunteers to audit material and mark
material that are Commons compliant. These files can then be moved to
Commons. When regularly a percentage is calculated of the material that is
OK for Commons versus the total amount of messages, we provide at least a
clue what will happen when they grow to big to have too much "illegal"
material.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 11 March 2010 20:14, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2010/3/11 Huib Laurens <[email protected]>:
> > When that restriction is lifted it would be much more easy to upload
> > copyvios, and maybe the smaller communities can't really handle it.
>
> I'm sure that's true, but I think that's OK. Small wikis need some
> time to grow and sort these things out on their own; trying to solve
> this problem by making it impossible to upload for new users is IMO
> the wrong approach.
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> Erik Möller
> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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