[Foundation-l] Ability to view deleted images for commons admins

Sun Jun 22 23:52:00 UTC 2008

There is a current proposal on meta to grant commons admins the
ability to view deleted image/image talk pages on all projects.
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metapub#Global_deleted_image_review)

This proposal is important because there are hundreds of thousands of
images on commons which began their Wiki-life on other projects and
were later transferred to commons with incomplete or inaccurate
history information and were then deleted.   There are also instances
of images on commons being falsely claimed as sourced from another
wiki.   Without the ability to completely review these images they may
be handled incorrectly.    Today commons admins are forced to
coordinate with other projects via IRC, email, etc, to evaluate these
cases ... most of whom turn out just fine.   This converts a couple of
seconds clicking into minutes of nagging and conversation. In practice
most commons admins just don't bother with it and the images remain
unchecked.

Your input is requested at the poll:  It wouldn't be right to push
through a wide impacting proposal on meta without input from the
projects at large.  (The Village pumps, noticeboard, etc for all the
major projects are being pinged about this proposal, please pardon the
spam.. :) )

Thanks.