"Its only point"=what is does=store images for other projects I was not referring to the cabinet makers, just the filing cabinets. It was the closest metaphor for Commons my caffeine deprived brain could think of. Following along it, a cabinet maker is one who makes cabinets. The cabinets themselves are repositories.
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:56 PM, 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. By "other projects", do you mean "other Wikimedia projects"? And how are you determining what "its only point" is? All Wikimedia projects are service projects in a sense. Unfortunately, I can not fathom any reason that Commons should be or is a > independent project in its own right. It would be like making all the filing > cabinets in an office their own division. Most cabinet makers are independent from the office where those cabinets are used. I really don't see the dichotomy between independence and service. _______________________________________________ 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
