Lars Aronsson wrote:
Finn Rindahl wrote
If there was more active admins, we could have done our job
better - especially when it comes to take the necessary time to
communicate with the other users who need help. The only way as
I see it to actually get volunteers to work at Commons is to
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Finn Rindahl wrote
If there was more active admins, we could have done our job
better - especially when it comes to take the necessary time to
communicate with the other users who need help. The
Hoi,
When you indicate that the relation between Commons and en.wp is clunky, you
will acknowledge that the policies re images of the English Wikipedia are
rather different. This prevents a common understanding about procedures and
policies. So I will grant you that it is not only language that
Cite: iAdding to this, a culture of deletionism and arrogance has
infested Wikimedia Commons in the last year or two. /i
I think on the whole i can agree with this. And it is not limited to
copyright violations. Commons has turned celf-centered more and more over
the past years.
Out of disgust
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Lars Aronsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But as soon as it comes to image uploading, an area where the
elderly have decades of photos to contribute, we're sending our
beginners off to Wikimedia Commons. Even if the menues and most
templates are localized in
-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening
Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
That might be a hell of a incentive to change. Before we talk
about getting out the torches, I think we should see if we can
make Commons functional. The incentive of being shuttered makes
it more relevant to those who
2008/12/6 Bryan Tong Minh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I can think of two solutions here. One is to simply have more
multi-project admins. Wikimedia ought to be one big community with a
commons goal. Unfortunately (but not unsurprisingly) Wikimedia has
been separated into many different islands
I guess I'm one of the Commons admins actively working against being [just]
a service project for the various other wikimedia projects. I don't want it
to be regarded as a completely independent project though. There's two
reasons why I do that.
1. Wikimedia Commons serves a purpose on it's own,
Finn Rindahl wrote:
I guess I'm one of the Commons admins actively working against
being [just] a service project for the various other wikimedia
projects.
This was David Gerard's wording and not mine. Overly general and
harsh descriptions are not productive.
If there was more active
