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...
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:23:52 +0200, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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