On 27/04/2014, Emmanuel Engelhart <emmanuel.engelhart@wikimedia.ch> wrote:
...
> Do you see any other risk?

Yes. The userrightmanegment for GWT was changed for a very good reason to crat management. 
Huge potential for abuse. GWT is powerful like botflag (noratelimits, uploadbyurl, etc). 

Regards,

> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 14:15:10 +0100
> From: faewik@gmail.com
> To: glamtools@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Glamtools] Open GWT to all Commons users
>
> On 27/04/2014, Emmanuel Engelhart <emmanuel.engelhart@wikimedia.ch> wrote:
> ...
> > Do you see any other risk?
>
> Yes.
>
> * If a user has 10 files to upload they should use the well designed
> standard wizard. The GWT is an amazingly cumbersome way to upload
> small numbers of files.
>
> * The GWT has a number of bugs and restricted features that would be
> very odd to explain to a user who was not part of a major GLAM upload
> project or had not had experience with batch uploads. For example xml
> validity testing is a complex issue and will never be covered by
> on-wiki step by step documentation.
>
> * We have a small user group, if this were doubled by random
> interested users without skills to bring to the party, or involvement
> in large batch upload projects, it is highly likely that most of us
> more engaged folks would drift off into yet another clique.
>
> In general, if anyone wanted to play with the tool, I would let them
> use the beta cluster to knock themselves out. I would encourage this
> approach as after playing around they might later come up with useful
> and interesting batch upload projects. At the moment we are have had
> very few requests to play with the tool on beta.
>
> With regard to barriers, the bureaucrats are being a bit harsh, but we
> have to remember that the point of GWT is that it is designed to be an
> powerful tool with the ability to rapidly upload 10,000 or 1000,000
> images, each of which may be up to 1GB. We want it to stay that
> powerful, not be re-designed to be small-upload friendly when there
> are several other tools and the upload wizard, to do precisely that
> and do it well.
>
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