On 11/12/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/11/06, Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think that even without the language barriers
it would be important
that commons content is a higher quality than the basic uploads on the
Wikis. It seems clear to me that many of commons quality problems are
caused by ignorance on the part of the uploaders.
Not asking newbies to upload here may be a good start.
Possibly we should start a separate project ... a service project for
other Wikimedia projects to use as an image repository, to avoid
duplicated images between wikis. Since Commons thinks it's toooo
haaaard to stoop to that any more. Does that sound like it might be a
useful idea?
I think that would be kinda redundant.
I think an image should be given the proper QA before it gets spread
across multiple wikis where the language barriers will make proper QA
difficult.
I don't think I've seen anyone on commons claim that duplicate images
are too hard to stop (or that they are a major problem when we can't
stop them).. rather, it's impossible to fix the copyright status of an
image when a drive-by user uploads since they never set an email, and
never check back (most likely they create a new account for their next
upload). ... and even when we can get their attention we often find
ourselves understaffed in the language the uploader speaks.