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[S] Remove the copyright confirmation checkbox from the not-own work flow
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Remove the last question in "not own work" flow asking users to confirm that media does not include copyrighted material such as logos, album cover etc. This will be covered by new machine detection flow.

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Sneha renamed this task from Removal of specific options/question from release right step to Remove the copyright confirmation checkbox from the not-won work flow.Sep 5 2024, 8:47 PM
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MarkTraceur renamed this task from Remove the copyright confirmation checkbox from the not-won work flow to [S] Remove the copyright confirmation checkbox from the not-own work flow.Sep 30 2024, 3:11 PM
mfossati changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Nov 22 2024, 11:45 AM
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Change #1094419 had a related patch set uploaded (by Marco Fossati; author: Marco Fossati):

[mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard@master] Not own work: remove last question

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1094419

@Sneha @AUgolnikova-WMF ... are you sure we still want to remove this? We're not actually doing machine detection of anything except logos (and even then we're only recording it, not taking action on it)

Confirmed that we want to remove it

Change #1094419 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard@master] Not own work: remove last question

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1094419

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Checked in commons beta - the copyright confirmation checkbox (the not-own work flow) is removed:

commons wmf.4commons betacommons wmf.6
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Confirmed that we want to remove it

@Cparle who is "we"? Any removal of safeguards should be brought before the community and consensus established. And it's highly concerning that this appears to have been done before the machine alternative has been rolled out. You need to communicate better (and this applies to you too, @Sannita — this is not a "minor change" that needs only an announcement rather than collaboration).

Confirmed that we want to remove it

@Cparle who is "we"? Any removal of safeguards should be brought before the community and consensus established. And it's highly concerning that this appears to have been done before the machine alternative has been rolled out. You need to communicate better (and this applies to you too, @Sannita — this is not a "minor change" that needs only an announcement rather than collaboration).

I take the critic, but the checkbox was inserted last year and it didn't disallow people to upload "bad" media to Commons. Also we are still trying to balance ease-of-use against moderator burden: we've done user testing on our solutions (most people in the test when they saw the checkbox, just blindly checked it off) and we are monitoring the proportion of uploads that get deleted after their insertion. Also, again, our new and improved questions should provide a better guardrail and hence we don’t need this extra checkbox anymore, which is good for experienced users (one less click).