On 11/12/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If a user uploads an image without information and
we're unable to get
ahold of them we must delete it. This is a pretty different situation
from a user who makes a few copyedits to the text of an article.
This substantial difference is demonstrated clearly by the relative
deletion rates of images and article on enwiki. Images are deleted
at a much higher rate relative to new image uploading than articles
are relative to new article creation.
I welcome contributions from new users on commons... but I think it's
both unfair and masochistic to demand users who are currently
unwilling to undertake the burden of participating in a multilingual
project to make their uploads to commons.
Your problem and solution don't seem to be properly coordinated. The
problem is people who come to commons, create accounts, and then never
check those accounts. It really has little to do with
multilingualism. If English WP shut off uploads and sent people to
commons it would be mostly the same problem.
Commons isn't ready for a large influx of contributions by what I'll
call "drive-by contributors from other projects".
It probably will be some day. I hope we are all in agreement that
that's what we want, even if we can't agree on whether or not to start
working on it *now*.
I wonder if it's time to take this to foundation-l, as it's a major
issue which affects pretty much all of the projects.
Anthony