yeah, having a bot to automatically mark images that are being used in osm sounds like a good solution tbh.
(next step would be to have a bot that automatically checks the Deletion Request pages to see if any of the one being added there are osm linked ones and make a copy to ipfs or something when that happens) Cheers, Thibault On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 18:20, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 16:26, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging < > tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > >> >> 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. >> > > I'd say OSM usage fits that definition. > > >> Files don't haveto be in use on any other project to be hosted >> > here, but they must have a reasonable potential use." >> > > That is where, at the moment, the judgement call comes in. If an > image isn't used by any other wikiproject (which their bots would > pick up) then somebody has to decide if it has reasonable potential > use. Whereas if there were a bot that somehow tagged images > that were used on OSM it would be seen that they were being > used by another informational project. It still wouldn't be an > absolute guarantee the image wouldn't be removed, but it > makes it far less likely to be removed. "I can't see any > reason to keep that image" versus "I can't see any reason > to keep that image other than it being used by OSM." > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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