Author: ayg
Description:
Bug 3712 comment #10 had a very interesting suggestion that's applicable to all
WMF wikis, not just Commons. Basically, have a couple of buttons (or just one)
for users to flag things as defamatory or a copyright violation. Every other
site of user-submitted content has had these for ages, but as far as I know we
never considered them. This is probably because, after all, we're a wiki, so
the anons can just edit the things out, but there are several advantages to
specific buttons:
- Many people don't seem to "get" that they can edit every page, despite the
friendly-looking buttons and taglines and everything.
- Even if they do, they may be scared away by all that fixed-width wikitext
with crazy punctuation marks everywhere.
- Anyone who did edit a page to remove large chunks of content would probably
be reverted nowadays by Tawkerbot or something, at least on enwiki, and there
goes any chance of their trying that again.
- It's quicker to just hit a button, which plays to the fact that most anons
aren't going to be terribly committed to rooting out bad stuff from Wikipedia.
- It's best to delete or oversight libel in particular, not just blank it, so
notification of admins is necessary.
Presumably the buttons would go to a special page, which would put the stuff in
a table, that could then be called up by anyone to go ahead and delete or AFD or
whatever they like. It could then be removed from the list somehow once it had
been dealt with, preferably only by sysops or other trusted users. For privacy
and to make people more willing to submit reports, it might be best to hide IPs
even for anonymous reporters, keeping them accessible only to sysops or
checkusers or what have you.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement