On 11/12/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/12/06, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org>
wrote:
Don't. Hard drive space is cheaper than
instilling common sense into
people. :), but I'm essentially serious.
Hard drive space is cheap as long as you don't consider any secondary
costs of storage. Ask Brion how our backups for commons images are
doing.
At the worst backups should require twice as much space as the images
themselves. If Wikimedia's backups require much more Brion is doing
something really really wrong.
Note that I didn't even say hard drive space was cheap. I just said
it's cheaper than education.
More importantly: categorization, verification,
search, etc are not
cheap. Nor is the time of the users we serve. We'd do a great
disservice by allowing commons to become a disordered dumping ground.
You contradict yourself. Being a disordered dumping ground doesn't
require categorization, verification, or search.
Anthony