On 11/14/06, Samuli Lintula <samuli(a)samulilintula.net> wrote:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:42:51 +0200, geni
<geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Commons is not normal. I'm an en and
wikispecies admin. I've probably
got at least as much experence dealing with images as all but your
most experenced admins. And now I have to mess around makeing 200
edits.
I would like to introduce you to CommonTasks
<URL:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:CommonTasks>.
It isn't ready but the talk page has a list of maintenance work people can
do even without being admins. It also has some instructions. Like I said,
it isn't ready, and I'm sorry I have lately been too busy to push it
forward even though other people liked the idea. But in time...
You want experenced and active admins. Something everyone is short of
to do non admin maintenance tasks includeing adding welcome templates?
This does not seem to be a reasonable use of rescourses.
I'm sorry to say, but such claim doesn't give
a very good picture of your
knowledge of Commons. The admin process in Commons is the laxest one I
know. 200 edits! I didn't know that much when I applied for adminship. I
hadn't done much maintenance work. And I was elected.
I know other porjects with more relaxed standards. We are not however
looking at candidates with nor previous background
You need people who can speak spanish. You need admins with image
experence who can speak spanish. The only place you can get them
quickly is from the spanish wikipedia. Rather than haveing them make
200 edits which are less critial it would be mnore effective to
provide links to crash courses in commons adminship policy and then
basicaly rubber stamp their aplications.
The reason Commons has few active admins is that - for
many people - the
work in Commons isn't rewarding. It's much more fun to write your own
book, than to keep other people's books in alphabetical order on the
library shelves.
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Ystävällisin terveisin,
Samuli Lintula
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