[WikiEN-l] Vandalism concerns with commons images

Wed Sep 14 23:43:09 UTC 2005

Michael Turley wrote:

>If you don't like the requirements that each of the other communities
>establishes, don't try to short circuit their processes through
>discussion on the "parent project".  Go there, and convince them it is
>in their best interest to grant common adminship.  Don't start here
>and say "Hey, they should grant me adminship upon arrival".  Here, I
>think the only appropriate discussion is whether Wikipedia-EN grants
>other projects' admins immediate access to our admin toolbox upon
>arrival.  Just as they have no business telling us who to grant
>adminship to, we have no business telling them.

I believe that it would be inappropriate for me to make such a request
at commons-l without discussing it first here.  If there is agreement
here that it would be a good thing, I would expect that discussion at
commons-l would follow.

I wonder whether commons has become more of a separate community than
was originally intended.  As the name implies, it was originally
supposed to be a shared area for media for all mw projects, ideally
with participation from each of them.  In that light, I'm surprised at
the degree of independence commons participants seem to expect.