Let's stop bitching at each other and start being more constructive, could
we?
Commons is the way to go and it saves a lot of work on and distraction from
other wiki's main goals. It's image policies are great - only _free_ media
in the broadest sense of the word. The admins do great work and yes, we
could use more of them. How can we archieve that?
Getting people inexperienced with image maintenance as admins on Commons is
not a good idea. Requiring only a few hundred edits and a few months of
activity is rather normal for admin bits on any Wikimedia wiki. There is
absolutely no reason to dispute it. Challenges are in the volume of the
content and the diversity of the languages. If _you_ want to help, make the
admins that do a lot of image maintenance on your local wiki aware of the
challenges Commons has and get them to chip in. If possible, change your
wiki policy so that it's image policy will start to be equal to that of
Commons, so that ultimately, it will be _the_ central image repository
aiding the creation of great free encyclopedias, free books, free source
material, free and illustrated taxonomies and much more.
In short: "Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access
to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." [1]
Do not forget the higher goals and build bikesheds [2] that distract us from
it.
Cheers! Siebrand
[1]
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeshed
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: commons-l-bounces(a)wikimedia.org
[mailto:commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] Namens geni
Verzonden: dinsdag 14 november 2006 13:33
Aan: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
Onderwerp: Re: [Commons-l] Principles of organisation - who do we serve?
<snip>
Not really. If en.pedia stoped switching images over to commons and copied
the ones we use back to en.pedia we could walk away from you in less than a
month.
<snip>
--
geni
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