https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope/Summary#Must_be_realistically_useful_for_an_educational_purpose
"hosts content that is useful for educational purposes. This means content that could be used by Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, or other projects that provide knowledge, instruction or information. Files don't have to be in use on any other project to be hosted here, but they must have a reasonable potential use." Aug 26, 2020, 15:48 by thibaultmolle...@gmail.com: > Does it being on osm have enough justification for them to keep it though? > "it's not a wikimedia project, so it doesn't matter to us if it's linked on > osm or not" > > > > On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 15:39, Paul Allen <> pla16...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 10:06, Thibault Molleman <>> >> thibaultmolle...@gmail.com>> > wrote: >> >>> Ah, I feel like there are certain images that might get deleted from >>> Commons just because they don't "contribute to wikipedia articles". >>> >> >> The commons isn't quite that arbitrary. They allow images which are of >> interest, but "of interest" is rather arbitrary. Generally, though, images >> used by wikipedia itself are not candidates for deletion. >> >> So what is needed is a bot of some sort that trawls the OSM database (which >> wikipedia has a copy of to create its own maps) to look for wikimedia_commons >> tags and somehow flags relevant images as being used on OSM. >> >> -- >> Paul >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>
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