New subject: Commons-l Digest, Vol 49, Issue 24

16 Jun 2009

I have ask you before to cancel my name from your mailing list. Jim Click
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> From: Alex Brollo &lt;alex.brollo(a)gmail.com&gt;
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> 2009/6/16 Geoffrey Plourde &lt;geo.plrd(a)yahoo.com&gt;
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>> If commons is not a service project, what is it? *Unlike other projects
>> which have a measurable output, Commons' sole function appears to be as a
>> repository of free images.* It is therefore very much a service project 
>> as
>> it serves other projects through storage of images.
>>
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> I don't agree with this statement.
> 1. any wiki project has in part a role of service for other wiki project.
> I.e.: we use la.source as a "repository" of original latin sources for our
> Italian translations of latin classics.
> 2. any shared file (images, movies and so on) is an independent output, 
> that
> can be used both into wiki projects and by any other web user. In
> particular, movies often carry a "complete message" by themselves. But if
> you think about, pictures too carry such a complete message, and sometimes 
> a
> very important one, needing lots of NPOV.
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> Alex
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