This thread illustrates both what is good and what is bad about Commons. There is general agreement that Commons could be made more user-friendly and that we need to reach out and communicate more.
Good: There are at least 15 decent ideas that have been mentioned, all of which merit further discussion. So there are plently of ideas around. Bad: Everyone has ideas, but nobody has the inclination to take the lead and to do anything with them. So, nothing happens (again). Proposal: (1) That the ideas in this thread be captured, and copied to Commons under a new project page called (eg) Commons: Outreach. (2) That we try to build support for taking some of the ideas forward. The first stage would be to find users who are committed to improving Commons/the Wikis and who would be prepared to act as sub-project leaders. What about it? Michael Florian Straub wrote: > Hi there, > > since I'm, subscribed via digest I have no mail to reply, so here some > random ideas (rough brainstorming) about the issues mentioned in the > thread 'Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening': > > * We need to have at least one (leading) person per language to > translate the messages. They should be contactable via email as well. > Maybe coordinated by a mailing-list. Wasn't there one? > > * We could "use" the translation power of the folks at betawiki > (http://translatewiki.net/ ) > > * I tried to launch a mentoring programme some months ago, but with no > success: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Mentoring > > * Maybe we could include SOME contact people directly in the templates. > > * What about something like ambassadors? > > These are just some spontaneous ideas, I wanted to share. Maybe you have > some to say about some of them ... > > > Best regards, > > > Flo > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > > > _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
