[Foundation-l] Spammer trick - image uploads abused

Mon Aug 22 03:45:56 UTC 2005

Hmmm...sounds like a good idea to me.

Regards,

Zachary Harden

>From: Elisabeth Bauer <elian at djini.de>
>Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
>To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
>CC: wikitech-l at wikipedia.org, wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
>Subject: [Foundation-l] Spammer trick - image uploads abused
>Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 05:33:13 +0200
>
>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