Guess we would need EDP for you wiki before enabling. Free media should be uploaded to Commons and local upload should be used only for images that are free only in your country or that your law allows to use in adddition to worldwide options.

@Dereckson taked care about it i think.

I confirm there isn't currently a non free content policy for the Tulu Wikipedia at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-free_content

@Pavan447 On what basis did you create these policies? Did you take in consideration Indian law?

In T166763#3309041, @Dereckson wrote:

I confirm there isn't currently a non free content policy for the Tulu Wikipedia at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-free_content

@Pavan447 On what basis did you create these policies? Did you take in consideration Indian law?

I have added the link to fair use policy (same as non-free content policy) page for Tulu Wikipedia now.

In T166763#3309041, @Dereckson wrote:

@Pavan447 On what basis did you create these policies? Did you take in consideration Indian law?

Yes. There is a link to the Indian Copyright Act also.

What else needs to be done?

In T166763#3323394, @Pavanaja wrote:

What else needs to be done?

Please let me know if we have to do anything else to take this forward.

Great, thank you. AFAIK technical restriction aren't possible from the server side. The community will have to take care about them itself. Maybe AbuseFilter can handle such restrictions but I don't think so. There is only a switch uploads are enabled/disabled to everybody/only certain groups (so for example you may have 'uploader' group which will be able to upload locally).

@Dereckson Can you check the EDP?

In T166763#3379089, @Urbanecm wrote:

Great, thank you. AFAIK technical restriction aren't possible from the server side. The community will have to take care about them itself.

I know. We will take care of it. Similar thing was done in Kannada Wikipedia. We are checking the files uploaded locally and taking care of them.

Local file upload is very much needed for Tulu Wikipedia which will allow adding book cover images to article.

Please enable local file upload facility to Tulu Wikipedia.

Stop flooding, please. We'll check the policy and if all will be ok, we'll process the request.

May I know why the priority was changed from Normal to Low? We have been waiting this to be implemented for quite sometime now. Please let us know what needs to be done from our end to speed up the process. AFAIK, there is no action pending from our side.

Priority reflects real state, not wishes. Normal means this or early next week, low means in two next weeks, lowest means "someday/maybe". Making the change is super-easy but somebody must check the EDP.

Ok

This task is still pending. May I know the reason?

Change 390303 had a related patch set uploaded (by TerraCodes; owner: TerraCodes):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable local uploads for tcywiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/390303

I don't speak Tulu. The fact there is a link to the Indian law is good, the fact the page is based on the en. non free content page less good.

What would be valuable would be a statement from the community someone knowledgeable with the Indian copyright law check it.

Meanwhile, the community seems to have done everything required: discuss exemptions, publish a policy, link it on meta, so yes we can proceed.

In T166763#3783047, @Dereckson wrote:

What would be valuable would be a statement from the community someone knowledgeable with the Indian copyright law check it.

@DhanalakshmiKT, @Ravi_Mundkur, @Pavanaja, @Badikana: Do you have anybody in mind? ^^

In T166763#3825800, @Aklapper wrote:

In T166763#3783047, @Dereckson wrote:

What would be valuable would be a statement from the community someone knowledgeable with the Indian copyright law check it.

@DhanalakshmiKT, @Ravi_Mundkur, @Pavanaja, @Badikana: Do you have anybody in mind? ^^

IMO, http://www.jurist.org/dateline/2012/05/sandeep-kanak-rathod-copyright.php is worth to be used when reviewing.

I really can't figure out why this task is taking so long. I am an admin in both Kannada and Tulu Wikipedias. FUP was drafted by us for Kannada Wikipedia first. Local file uploading was enabled for Kannada Wikipedia. Then the same kind of policies were drafted by Tulu community. I thought local file upload will be enabled very soon for Tulu also similarly. But it is simply dragging for Tulu for no reason. We made sure that everything needed is in place before putting this request.

We have had issues in the past with small wiki uploads becoming swamped with copyright violations. So we need to check very carefully that there are rules in place about non-free content, and there aren't many copyright law experts and Tulu speakers about.

How long this will take to implement? Will it ever be done or not? Community has resolved to implement this long ago. FUP is in place. What else is needed?

Change 390303 abandoned by TerraCodes:
Enable local uploads for tcywiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/390303

@Urbanecm , can you look into this code review is still pending

Tulu Wikipedia is EDP complies EDP as per https://tcy.wikipedia.org/wiki/ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸದ್ಬಳಕೆ ,and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-free_content
Other external links regarding fairuse policy in India

• https://copyright.gov.in/Exceptions.aspx
• https://vakilsearch.com/advice/fair-use-of-copyright/amp/

In T166763#5023311, @gerritbot wrote:

Change 390303 abandoned by TerraCodes:
Enable local uploads for tcywiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/390303

Discussed on IRC #wikimedia-tech between @Anoop and @RhinosF1.

A summary of the previous comments is probably needed:

• tcy. (Tulu) is a language mainly spoken in India, so Indian law is relevant here
• the task is rather old, as we were afraid a direct translation from en.wikipedia wouldn't be a good fit for Indian law, and we would so have liked a statement like "the current EDP, including fair use, is OK under Indian law".

Change was submitted by @TerraCodes and got two approvals:

• @TerraCodes confirmed the discussion and the procedure was OK
• @Urbanecm gave a technical approve of the change
• I gave a cautious approval as the consensus is there, and the correct things have been done (discussion on wiki, prepare the EDP page, link it on meta)

@Anoop pointed the fact apparently, other Indian languages have local upload, including Kannada Wikipedia (T133137) which copies en. policy too. On that task, @Pavanaja explicitly confirmed "Indian copyright law has been considered. It is linked from the FUP page" (T133137#3166252).

Change 390303 restored by Ladsgroup:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable local uploads for tcywiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/390303

Change 390303 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable local uploads for tcywiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/390303

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