I guess I'm one of the Commons admins "actively working against being [just] a service project" for the various other wikimedia projects. I don't want it to be regarded as a "completely independent project" though. There's two reasons why I do that.
1. Wikimedia Commons serves a purpose on it's own, in being the project where we (wikimedians) make free media files avvailable to the public. That's well within the aim of WMF, just like wikipedia is bringing free encyclopedic content etc. 2. For Commons to be able to serve the other wikimedia projects in a satisfactory manner, there has to be a lot of committed volunteers doing the (most often) tedious task of maintaining the media files, among other things ensuring that the content indeed is free and that the files are marked an categorised so that others easily can find them. Most of these volunteers are the "commonsadmin", who in my opnion has one of the most ungrateful jobs in the wikimedia world. If there was more active admins, we could have done our job better - especially when it comes to take the necessary time to communicate with the other users who need help. The only way as I see it to actually get volunteers to work at Commons is to build a "community feeling" at commons like in other projects. If I only pop by Commons to fix something upon a request from another user at Norwegian Wikipedia - that's well and good but not something that will motivate me to spend and hour or two working on a backlog or actively look up some new Dutch user to see if I can help them learn how to best upload images at commons. Finn Rindahl 2008/12/7 David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/12/6 Bryan Tong Minh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I can think of two solutions here. One is to simply have more > > multi-project admins. Wikimedia ought to be one big community with a > > commons goal. Unfortunately (but not unsurprisingly) Wikimedia has > > been separated into many different islands separated by language > > borders, which are very hard to open up. Commons was born as a > > multilingual project, but in that aspect has failed I believe. > > > Relations between Commons and en:wp are clunky at the best of times, > so it's certainly not just a language issue at all. > > It's Commons forgetting it's a service project or Commons admins > actively working against being a service project, because they want to > be regarded as a completely independent project. > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
