On 28 Oct 2010, at 20:38, Maarten Dammers wrote: > Op 28-10-2010 20:56, Gerard Meijssen schreef: >> Hoi, >> I am writing a series of blog posts about Commons. My aim is to identify the >> issues that I have with how it functions. There are several and I do not >> bother to write about the ones that are being tackled by the team around >> Guillaume (as far as it is clear to me what they are doing). >> >> The latest blog is about the difficulty of finding pictures, I am also of >> the opinion that we have the opportunity to be more of a resource of stock >> images that are freely licensed. We should stimulate this. Yes Commons is >> growing rapidly. Its coverage leaves a lot to be desired. In my >> opinion we need to concentrate on search and coverage to make Commons truly >> kick ass. > A lot of fun stuff can still be done with the search engine (lucene), but as > far as I know there is no development there. Would be nice if the foundation > would work on that.
Regardless of whether the Foundation's interested or not, chapters might be interested in supporting this sort of work (I'm fairly sure that Wikimedia UK would be). I'd recommend that anyone interested in doing such development gets in touch with their local chapter. Mike Peel _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
