Hello Emmanuel,
i think it is a good idea to open the GWT to all Commons users. But I think a limit to ten
files is not a good idea. Ten files can be easily uploaded with the current wizard. If we
want to limit it, it should be 100 files. This should work for active photographs. And we
can limit it to users who have already uploaded several files to avoid that a new sock
puppet can misuse the tool.
I would prefer to have no limitation. If somebody misuses the tools than there are
administrators who can block that user. Maybe we need a easy rollback function for
administrators to rollback such an bad upload of several unwanted files and the
possibility to delete that pictures permanently.
Best regards,
Micha
Am 27.04.2014 um 14:39 schrieb Emmanuel Engelhart
<emmanuel.engelhart(a)wikimedia.ch>ch>:
Hi,
Currently on Commons, the access to the GWT is limited to a small group of "happy
fews" (who have the GWT permission).
Becoming a part of this group seems to be difficult, even for prominent players of our
community:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bureaucrats%27_noticeboard#GWToo…
To my opinion, we have nothing to loose (and maybe a lot to win) by opening the GWT to
all Commons users. This is the way we use to work and what makes us successful. I
don't see why we should proceed differently here.
AFAIK, the only risk of this move would be to be flooded by inadequate files. That's
why we should maybe limit the number of parallel GWT downloads to 1 or limit the overall
number of uploads to 10 per XML file for non-GWT permitted users. An other solution would
be to adapt current admin tools to allow them to efficiently deal with this new kind of
challenges.
Do you see any other risk?
Regards
Emmanuel
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