[Foundation-l] Request for starting Wikicommons

Mon Aug 16 22:10:48 UTC 2004

On 08/16/04 12:13, Andre Engels wrote:

> Thus, I would ask for the Wiki to be set up, proposed address: 
> commons.wikimedia.org, perhaps with a redirect from commons.wikipedia.org.
> Once it has been set up, I would like to invite everyone to come over to 
> join in early policy discussion and get an upload basis, as well as to 
> join with Eloquence in his work to improve the Mediawiki software for 
> this purpose (see [[meta:Wikimedia Commons]]).
> People who have already shown interest in the project will be contacted 
> by me once it is set up, as will be the various (other) Wikimedia projects.

Yes please. Seconded. Eagerly awaited.

(I do like the idea of somewhere I can put all the pics of buildings,
monuments and so on that I took a pic of because I thought they'd be a
nice idea for Wikipedia if I ever write the article ...)

- d.