Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-03-09/From the archives


 * issues with net neutrality and copyright violations finally killed it off - Neither of those killed it off (and I've fixed the misleading line in the main article). There were net neutrality objections the whole way through, but it died because people stopped using it. Data became too cheap, basically. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 13:09, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * We actually inserted "and copyright violations" following one of the main article's sources, a 2016 Vice piece currently used as citation #33. Vice said over 300 accounts were using Commons via Zero to host pirated content. Although WMF may not have explicitly spoken about the isssue when it was shut down, there are Phab tickets as well as participation in discussions at Commons Village Pump circa 2017 that show they were aware of the problem. For what it's worth. ☆ Bri (talk) 18:14, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Indeed, but our article (and now this, perhaps because of the article) created an artificial connection between copyright and its demise combining sources years before it shut down with news of the program stopping [that don't say anything resembling "because copyright"]. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 19:46, 9 March 2023 (UTC)