[Foundation-l] Re: Wikimedia Communs

Mon May 31 00:44:00 UTC 2004

Toby-
> I was saying earlier that it'd be nice to have the thing around,
> even before it really gets the software features that it needs.
> But I agree that it would be rather anticlimactic to advertise it,
> just to have people discover that it really isn't that neat (yet).
> Erik, your stories of disaster awaiting us make more sense now.

> So perhaps the solution is to launch it ''without'' great fanfare???

Well, this doesn't address my technical concerns - makes single sign-on  
more difficult to add when an account database already exists, existing  
images will have to be duplicated again - and I fear that in terms of  
policy, it would make things even worse when only a small group of people  
sets the initial project policies.

Patience. This week we will formulate the Commons roadmap together. Maybe  
we can move up the creation of a wiki to a point when not all but only the  
most essential features exist; perhaps not a fully working version of  
single sign-on yet and just very basic image sharing. If the final version  
is ready in 3 months, maybe we can get a beta version up and running in 2  
or 3 weeks. How does that sound?

Regards,

Erik