[Commons-l] Principles of organisation - who do we serve?

Tue Nov 14 20:58:28 UTC 2006

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:42:51 +0200, geni <geniice at 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...

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:23:52 +0200, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> There isn't anyone advocating that; this discussion started with a
> Commons admin threatening to block all es:wp users from Commons to
> stop copyvios from es:wp, because the Commons admins can't keep up,
> evidently because their admin process is strict enough that pretty
> much no-one even bothers trying.

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.

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