Wikisource talk:Monthly Challenge/Archives/2022-01

Management of Monthly Challenge texts
Hello, Can I ask who is managing the Monthly Challenge text selection and upload? There seems to be a rush to include works from 1926 but some of them appear to have copyright issues ('Winnie-the-Pooh' and 'The Seven Pillars of Wisdom' in particular). Having done quite a lot of work on both of these, it looks as if they may now be deleted. Chrisguise (talk) 09:53, 9 January 2022 (UTC)


 * No one is specifically responsible. The nominations page doesn't generally produce enough nominations by others, so it's mostly left to whoever feels like filling up the challenge at the end of the previous month. In practice, this is often Languageseeker, but it can be any interested user. If there are multiple interested users with suggestions, it's best to nominate ahead of time to allow people to check out issues like copyright.
 * For those two works specifically, it sounds like they just need the scans and images to be imported to Wikisource, as they are in the Public Domain in the US by virtue of being published 95 years ago. For non-US works, this is not always sufficient for hosting at Commons. This will not result in deletion of the works at Wikisource, unless it comes out that they are also not PD in the US. Inductiveload— talk/contribs 12:14, 9 January 2022 (UTC)


 * @Chrisguise @Inductiveload Yes, nobody is in charge of the MC per se, but I and Inductiveload set it up and I've mostly been running it. Copyright is a tricky affair and I tried to upload most of the files locally here for that reason, but I forgot to put 'The Seven Pillars of Wisdom'.
 * As for the images, they won't be deleted. We went through the same thing with 'When We Were Very Young'. I put the images on Commons, they got a deletion request, and then they I asked them to be localized here and it was done. A bit of a process, but it all works out. Thank you for all your amazing work here. Languageseeker (talk) 13:10, 9 January 2022 (UTC)