make image uploads admin-approved?
I hate to suggest this, but due to the recent rash of “ass pus” vandalism, would it be a bad idea to make it so that uploaded images have to be approved by a sysop? I know that this might be a burden to legit users, but honestly, I don’t really see a need for images (Wiktionary isn’t an encyclopedia). Just a thought. –Ixfd64 07:02, 1 August 2005 (UTC) P.S. I kinda miss the “ass pus” vandal’s old style – they’re much easier to revert. • In fact we could switch off image uploading entirely. There is another project – WikiCommons – for this purpose. We should migrate all our images and sound files over there. Referring to them is not harder than it is now. When a file is not found on a certain project it will be looked for on Commons. It makes a lot of sense to put all images, sound files, etc together in one place. It avoids a lot of duplication of effort and storage as they can be used and reused by all the projects. The next step could be to not allow images from external sites anymor
