I'd appreciate some sort of a mechanism (maybe java backup) that will allow me to better check the images.
It takes too much time to process every individual entry with the detail I'd like to put it. And after the 1000th delete it starts to get annoying to manually check history of the image, contributions of the tagger/uploader and etc.
We need a bot to at the very least warn the uploaders if they weren't warned. I wouldn't however want a bot that starts deleting things. No matter how hard a bot is written, it is possible to trick a bot into doing destructive stuff.
Having said that we absolutely need a delinking bot. If the delinker gets blocked in local wikis they cease to become our problem. If wikis are going to use our content they definitely need to be cooperative. If we have a commons delinker working, the ticker probably wouldn't have to report deleted images though it would report the tagging.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
One nice thing to do is perhaps to break the deletion processes such as {{no license}}, {{no source}}. {{pd-art}}, {{pd-old}} images tagged with {{no source}} should be a separate process.
I really want better deletion tools as I am required to do a thousand deletions per day to keep up with backlog (as it is now). It is theoretically impossible for us to deal with the commons backlog at the rate of increasing backlog versus the rate of successfully admin candidates. Commons backlog is actualy already out of control.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
As it stands it is clear that commons is a failing system. We should really have more tools here on commons at our disposal. It should take me two clicks to review and delete an image.
Needless to say the nonsense leaking to us from es.wiki is creating additional problems.
On 11/15/06, samuli@samulilintula.net
<samuli@samulilintula.net> wrote:
> 2006/11/15, Magnus Manske:
>> Theoretically, one could write a bot which could do the deletions, so
>> no admins get scolded. The idea of a deletion-bot with admin rights (a
>> virtual equivalent of [2];-) might sound scary, but setting it for "no
>> edits for a month since addition of the template", combined with the
>> image resurrection capability, should calm this.
>
> If someone runs such bot, please don't delete more that, let's say,
> 100 images a day, otherwise CommonsTicker gets stucked :)
I'm not a bot, but I have deleted up to 1000 images per day :)
But seriously, when I've been in a deleting mood, I have also spared
tagged images. There are at least three kind of good images amongst tagged
images:
1. Vandalism tagging (rare)
2. Ineligible (chemical formulas, PD-art)
3. Images where information has been provided after tagging for deletion.
This is the most common group.
These are also reasons why a bot wouldn't be an extremely good idea.
Although considering that the time wasted on deleting could be spent
better, I'm not totally against a "monster bot", either.
--
Ystävällisin terveisin,
Samuli Lintula
_______________________________________________
Commons-l mailing list
Commons-l@wikimedia.org
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l