Project:Requests/RfC/Restrict local uploads on mediawiki.org

Restrict local uploads on mediawiki.org
I propose to add mediawiki.org to the commonsuploads.dblist to restrict local uploads to administrators.

As you can see at Special:Log/upload most of the local uploads are deleted either as off-topic or due to copyright infringements. This wastes time of patrollers and administrators to hunt down innapropriate multimedia content.

There's not much of a need to upload files locally. The not-policy page Project:Image policy provides that local uploads should be used to describe MediaWiki extensions. Those uploads can happen without any issues at Wikimedia Commons, which allows freely licensed screenshots of freely-licensed extensions (cfr. c:Template:Wikimedia screenshot, c:Template:Free screenshot, etc.).

There is also no Fair Use / Exemption Doctrine Policy in mediawiki.org as mandated by the Board Resolution on Licensing Policy so we cannot legally host non-free content here (Project:Fair use policy is tagged as  and never achieved consensus).

Multimedia content is better curated at Wikimedia Commons where there's an active and dedicated community for this tasks. Restricting local uploads to administrators will also reduce the workload of patrolers and administrators.

Thank you, --MarcoAurelio (talk) 16:07, 15 December 2018 (UTC)