Ok, at the risk of being the bad guy here: Nobody is really suggesting we should become more like Flickr, right? Comment system is all nice, but 1) commons is not a social networking site (there are plenty of those on the web, do we need to emulate them?) 2) commons should not be a popularity contest (or else we would be having the same oversaturated HDR kitsch images that get som many praising comments on Flickr) 3) some people really should get over it
For crying out loud, do we really need to sugar coat every informational bot message? if peoples "feelings" are hurt because we tell them a bot they did something wrong that is essentially not my problem. Yes. There is a ton of work to do in commons and barely enough people to manage it with the help of bots. And I'm getting the impression people complain that we do not go around and hold newbies' hands have a chat with them over a cup of tea. Boo freaking hoo! We do not have the resources for that. And 99% of the time IT WOULD NOT BE WORTH IT IN ANY CASE. 99% of the people that get bot-shafted are drive-by uploaders that upload a few non-free junk pictures, without ever bothering to think about the purpose and mission of commons. Maybe we have to make that a little more clear. Have small online course with a few quizz questions to be answers at account creation time. Next complaint is: everything is in english. Yeah, we should get off our lazy asses and replicate our entire category system in every possible language. Oh yeah, and nobody should post anything on commons without all those zillions of translations attached to it. Geez, english, what made you world language?! We are such an exclusionary club. Ahrgh, again, WE DO NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES!!! Ok, rant over. I guess I'm probably the problem with commons... _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
