Community Wishlist/Wishes/Disallow or restrict non-confirmed users from cross-wiki uploading files to Commons
Description
The WMF study on cross-wiki uploading by enwiki and arwiki contributors was released (document). According to study, the users, most of them self-promoters, claimed "own work" on someone else's or companies' works, all of which were deleted. In response to the study (discussion, restricting new users (of any project) from cross-wiki uploading files to Commons (especially by using uploading tools, like UploadWizard) was proposed. The proposal received unanimous support (discussion). To this date, not much has been changed to restrict non-(auto)confirmed users from doing so.
Update from WMF: We are archiving this wish as it is mostly a matter of policy versus product. While there are product implications, it requires alignment across various wikis to implement such a policy.
Assigned focus area
Unassigned.
Type of wish
System change
Related projects
All projects
Affected users
Users without (auto)confirmed status, especially newly registered users, from all projects