[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia for Cell Phones - see kwickee.com as well

Mon Jul 19 14:58:23 UTC 2004

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:55:52 +0100, Timwi <timwi at gmx.net> wrote:
> Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
> 
> > I don't know the solution, but it sure would be sweet to have some
> > means of bulk uploading, for example ftp or something like that.
> 
> Personally, I would very much like to see a textbox where one can enter
> a URL that Wikipedia will then fetch automatically. In order to allow
> bulk upload, one might as well have a textarea where one can enter
> several URLs. (I might actually do that myself if no-one beats me to it.)
> 
> Yes, I do realise that this makes it easy to upload copyrighted images
> from websites. But I don't think that's a problem: The wiki way is not
> to make things impossible, but to make things back-tracable and
> undoable, so all it needs is to put the URL in the image description,
> and everyone can check if it's on a website that has copyrighted images.

Any bulk uploading should probably be limited to admins as its
potential for abuse is pretty evident.

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