[Commons-l] Principles of organisation - who do we serve?

Tue Nov 14 13:50:40 UTC 2006

geni wrote:
> On 11/14/06, Siebrand Mazeland <s.mazeland at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> How?

We don't have to worry about as much vandalism or what we're saying
about people. Or border disputes.

> 
>> 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.
> 
> Commons is not normal. I'm an en and wikispecies admin. I've probably
> got at least as much experence dealing with images as all but your
> most experenced admins. And now I have to mess around makeing 200
> edits.
> 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Image_classification_system
should keep you busy then.

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