[Foundation-l] Spammer trick - image uploads abused

Mon Aug 22 03:33:13 UTC 2005

Hi,

In the last time we had several cases where spammers uploaded images on 
different wikipedias and used the pictures in html emails, trying to 
sell chairs, grammophones or whatever.

Usually the uploads were the only contributions of said user, and the 
license was missing.

It's maybe worth to consider disabling uploads on the projects which 
don't really need it but can use commons (such as the german wikipedia 
whose image upload policy is entirely compatible with commons and 
especially all the smaller wikis which are not constantly watched).

Crosspost to wikitech and wikipedia-l, but please answer on foundation-l 
since this is a project wide policy issue.

greetings,
elian
PS: I'll be away (on holiday) for the next three weeks, so don't expect 
an answer from me, only posting this to the list to make people aware of 
the issue.