Hello, how about thinking about a channel between commons admins and local admins, for example a subpage under the Request for Administrator Attention (or some similar page), so that in case a non-english-speaking user is doing something odd, at first the local admins can be consulted.
Ting Finn Rindahl wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
