User:Bensin/Proposals

Music infoboxes

 * See User:Bensin/Proposal for music infoboxes

Separate compositions from recordings and mediums.

robots.txt
I propose an update of the robots.txt file to include information not available there. I understand the server administrators want It is probably a good idea to
 * no parallel incoming requests
 * a preferred crawl-delay (if I remember correctly "maximum of 1 request per second" but the "Crawl-delay: 1" is commented out?)
 * expressing this at the very top of robots.txt
 * include a link to the related http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bot_policy

People generally want to do the right thing. We should make it easy for them to do just that by clearly stating the rules for what we think is responsible instead of just writing "some misbehaved spiders out there that go _way_ too fast" without spelling out how fast "too fast" is. Consider moving (or copying) all paragraphs containing the word "please" to the top of the file where one usually starts reading.

Proposal to simplify permission handling for files where the uploader is not the copyright holder

 * Proposed in September 2011 at Commons:Commons:Upload_Wizard_feedback/Archive/2011/09

In response to a discussion on Swedish Wikipedia about the fairly complicated procedure with permission handling for files where the uploader is not the copyright holder, I propose to simplify the process in the hope that it will increase the donations of media files to Commons:


 * In the step "Release rights", under the choice "This file is not my own work.", under "Now tell us why you are sure this site has the right to publish this work:", there should also be a choice "The copyright holder of this work has expressed their wish to release it under a free license" with the same licence choices as under "The copyright holder published this work with the right Creative Commons license", but with an additional free-text-field for an e-mail address to the copyright holder and a drop-down menu with language options.
 * The file should then be uploaded and its page automatically tagged with "pending permission".
 * An e-mail should automatically be sent to the copyright holder with information, in the selected language, that the file is uploaded to Commons and with a URL to a "contract page", unique for the file in question and "impossible" to guess, where the copyright holder can see the file and accept or decline the licence chosen by the uploader (or via a drop-down menu change licence before accepting).
 * If the copyright holder declines, or fail to accept within a specified time (a week?), the file is automatically be deleted and the uploader informed.
 * If the copyright holder accepts the licence the copyright holder's e-mail address is automatically stored in a ticket in OTRS and the file automatically be tagged with the licence accepted and the ticket number from OTRS.

It should be made clear to the uploader that this feature should be used only when the uploader and copyright holder already have an agreement, and not for soliciting new material.

Primary categories

 * See Category_intersection and template:Category intersection

Archiving pages used as references
Work with (or ask) the Internet Archive to archive pages used as references in our articles. Have a spider check links from time to time and replace broken links with links to the archived pages.

Clarify the information about page moves

 * at MediaWiki:Movepage-moved

Which bots fix the redirect links, when do they do it and by what rules?
 * Some talk here and here. Added short description here.