On 12/11/11 15:11, William Allen Simpson wrote: > There are a number of obvious technical issues. YouTube and others > have had to handle this, it's time for us. > > 1) DMCA doesn't require a takedown until there's been a complaint. We > really shouldn't allow deletion until there's been an actual complaint. > We need technical means for recording official notices and appeals. > Informal opinions of ill-informed volunteers aren't helpful.
We have higher standards than that. > 2) Fast scripting and insufficient notice lead to flapping of images, > and confusion by the owners of the documents (and the editors of > articles, as 2 days is much *much* too short for most of us). We need > something to enforce review times. Yes, deleting on 2 days was too fast, given that you had concerns over it. That's also the reason it was restored by Odder :) > 3) Folks in other industries aren't monitoring Talk pages and have no > idea or sufficient notice that their photos are being deleted. The > Talk mechanism is really not a good method for anybody other than very > active wikipedians. We need better email and other social notices. See my other reply about email notification. > 4) We really don't have a method to "prove" that a username is actually > under control of the public figure. Hard to do. Needs discussion. We have OTRS https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS > 5) We probably could use some kind of comparison utility to help > confirm/deny a photo or article is derived from another source. > > If there's a better place to discuss this, please indicate. That's not a problem in this case, as the photo /was/ in facebook. The problem was identifying the prior one. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
