I don't think trying to gather and follow up the ideas in this thread at e new project page is "creating a new institution". I'm with Michael here, trying to sort this out on-wiki could indeed help "change the people and the way they work".
Posting at Commons:Village Pump could help bring up more ideas, brainstorm and attreact interrest - but VP is not a very suitable place to actually develop sustainable solutions. Neither is no:Tinget or sv:bybrunnen. Finn Rindahl 2008/12/12 Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> > Michael Maggs wrote: > > > (1) That the ideas in this thread be captured, and copied to Commons > > under a new project page called (eg) Commons: Outreach. > > In my country (Sweden) there was a heated discussion in the 1960s > that universities had become too specialized. Literature > professors didn't speak to professors in chemical engineering. > There was a rough concensus that more interdisciplinary studies > were needed. So, in 1970 when a new university was founded, what > did they do? They founded a department of interdisciplinary > studies. The new department attracted some professors of > interdisciplinary science, which are now about to retire. But the > literature professors and the professors of chemical engineering > still don't talk to each other. > > What can we learn from this? We must change the people and the > way they work, not create new institutions. > > Wikimedia Commons already has a village pump, and it's not overly > full with discussions. Today I (user:LA2) brought up some strange > upload patterns that I observed in five new users. At first I > thought they were sock puppets for a single, large scale copyvio. > But it is more likely they are students in a science project. > The problem is that we have no way to communicate with them or > their teacher. They have all received the standard welcome > template on their user talk page, but nobody seems to bother. > Try to find the people behind these user names and ask them what's > going on. That would be practical outreach. No new page is needed. > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >
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