User:Donald Trung/How the MediaWiki Upload Wizard should treat blacklisted external links (both locally and globally)

This is an essay on how to improve the MediaWiki Upload Wizard 🧙‍♂️ by completely ignoring all blacklists.

How the MediaWiki Upload Wizard should treat blacklisted external links (both locally and globally).

Having a simple tag that denotes that a link 🔗 is on the blacklist is better than preventing any changes which utilise blacklisted links 🔗, especially if these are utilised in a productive manner that benefit the project.

Having a simple tag that denotes that a link 🔗 is on the blacklist is better than preventing any changes which utilise blacklisted links 🔗, especially if these are utilised in a productive manner that benefit the project.

The MediaWiki Upload Wizard 🧙‍♂️ (Mobile 📱) currently discriminates against blacklisted links 🔗 regardless of why they were blacklisted in the first place, this means that many websites which have useful and free 🆓 educational images can’t be used to source an image. Let’s say that a university’s or museum’s research website was used on 5 (five) different wiki’s and then a user who extensively used it to source content on one wiki gets blocked indefinitely then all of these external links 🔗 will get removed from every Wikimedia website as “cross-wiki spam”, this is simply the way external links work on Wikimedia websites and way less legitimate links are usually accepted because they get used less thus aren’t seen as “spam”. Now if one of these websites contained a lot of public domain books 📚 or other useful files 📁 can’t be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons because of some non-sense on another project will was probably blacklisted without a proper reason. In a culture of “shoot first, ask questions never” content is ALWAYS the victim. For this reason I propose that the MediaWiki Upload Wizard 🧙‍♂️ would ignore any blacklists but would take them into consideration and tag them for “license review”, if a website is tagged for license review then people could confirm for themselves if an image is wanted or not. Declaring something “spam” without ever having looked at it because it was placed by a person you hate is not a sufficient reason to exclude content (although it's a commonly used tactic).

Now of course this shouldn’t mean to include links 🔗 from external websites which were blacklisted here locally because of unfree content or because German copyrighttroll Marco Verch created the work, but links 🔗 that were globally excluded for non-copyright © related reasons just simply shouldn't be blacklisted on Wikimedia Commons because of some perceived “spamlinking” on other projects. The people accused of “spamlinking” always do this out of altruism and sourcing content and the removal of these links is usually (if not always) done to harm the content they’ve created. External links 🔗 on Wikimedia Commons are needed because a lot of free works are unsourced while links for them could be used. Also when the owners of websites self-request global blacklisting of their website because people were “stealing” their content despite being 2D scans in the public domain (see “{{PD-Scan}}”) and then a Wikipedia sysop with no idea how copyright © works blacklists the website globally then this doesn't benefit the project, it only protects the business of a company that doesn't understand how copyright © works and this Wikipedia sysop validates their selfish practices. We shouldn't be encouraging businesses to ignore the public domain for their own profits.

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Sent 📩 from my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL with Microsoft Windows 10 Mobile 📱. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 07:18, 15 March 2019 (UTC) (Microsoft Outlook e-mail 📧 title for future 🔮 reference: “Blacklist3.”.).