On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Geoffrey Plourde <[email protected]>wrote:
> Commons is an oddball project. Other projects produce work, but Commons > stores it. Wikisource could be considered another oddball for the same > reason. At this point in time, I would class Commons as a service project > (and wikisource as well) because it provides a service to other projects and > its only point is to provide a service to other projects. > You are ignoring the efforts of the photographers, graphic artists, restorationists and free image sleuths that consider building the archive at Commons as their primary goal. There is a great deal of content added and maintained in Commons that is uploaded with no particular WMF use in mind. An organizaed and well-documented free content repository -- for use by the wider world -- is valuable regardless of whether the works it contains happen to be used by the WMF. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
