2009/6/8 Platonides <[email protected]>

> Dror Kamir wrote:
>
> > - The images contributed are saved on the Commons. They are saved
> > temporarily before they are uploaded and then deleted from the temporary
> > server. By blocking the upload bot you caused a jam at the temporary
> > server, and quite soon the whole project will freeze, as people won't be
> > able to keep loading images.
> >
> > Dror K
>
> I understood that it was kept *both* at pikiwiki and commons. I now
> understand why you considered it so important and didn't stop the bot
> when problems arose.


I'm following this talk with increasing  uncomfortableness.  Please tell me:
why aren't Pikiwiki users simply strongly encouraged to post their images
into Commons directly by themselves? Why this intermediate step?

Alex
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