On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Nikola Smolenski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > > it to Commons, or make it insufficiently; 2) why they do not make it ot > > the articles. I tried to make the point in the recent thread on the > > purpose of Commons, but somehow it did not draw enough attention. > > Realistically, if somebody uploaded a good picture (not necessarily of a > > person, it could also be a landscape, a PD piece of art or smth else), > and > > if this somebody is an active editor of only one Wikipedia, this picture > > has very little chance to make it to other Wikipedia articles, except may > > be for the ones which are created after the file has been uploaded. > > There are tools such as > http://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php<http://toolserver.org/%7Emagnus/fist.php>that > address this, perhaps they could be more advertised. > That's a great idea. Having a prominent link to "recently uploaded images" (I'm thinking of something like [[Special:NewFiles]] that shows more than 50 entries on a page with rc-style metadata, combined from the local wiki + commons) next to "recent changes" on wikipedia would make quite a difference -- we currently have an extra barrier to entry for people who want to get involved with media. Is this sort of change being considered by the usability project? SJ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
