Hi Huib, yes, that seems to be an accurate description of the current situation. However, what would you /want/ it to be, and /why/ ? :)
Thanks, eia 2009/6/16 Huib Laurens <[email protected]> > Hello, > > I want to start with thanking Effe iets anders, this is the most neutral > email about Commons I have seen this week, and I like the fact that > there is a new angle to work with. > > I think Commons is both a service projects and a independent project, > Commons is a free file repository and can be used in all MediaWiki site > from version 1.13 or higher > (source:http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Instant_Commons ), so Commons is > providing a service for more than 10.000 sites > (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki). Commons is also > a service project for Newspapers, magazines, other sites or things that > needs images under a free license. I don't think somebody on Commons > would mind if you call it a service project in this context. > > All Wikimedia project sites are build in MediaWiki so Commons provides > them the same hosting service as the do for other MediaWiki sites, only > the big difference is that the Foundation own the servers that host > Commons and that the Wikimedia Foundation the only organization is that > can use Commons for hosting non free images. > > When we look inside Wikimedia we have Wikipedia, Wikibooks,Wiktionary, > Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversety . Wikisource and Wikimedia > Commons. Those nine projects all have there own scope and can work > independent from the other projects, all the projects have there own > community, policies, rules and content. When the Foundation will stop > the could sell those projects to nine different people and all projects > can keep working, the don't need a other project to keep existing. So > all those project can be seen independently within the Foundation. The > projects that stay over like Wikimania, Incubator or meta can be seen as > projects with the soul purpose to support the nine big projects within > the Foundation, Incubator can not work without other projects, Meta > needs other projects to keep working also. Commons can go on with his > own community, so does Wikipedia or Wikinews ect ect. > > So we should see Commons as a inpendend project created for giving > MediaWiki sites a free file repository, but optimized for giving extra > service for Wikimedia projects. > > > Best regards, > > Huib > * <http://www.wikipedia.org>* > > _______________________________________________ > 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
