On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 at 17:32, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hoi. > One reason why I am a candidate for the board of the WMF is that in my > opinion one function is lacking. There is no reflection of the fact that all > that we do is to share the sum of all knowledge. It is not only about the > creation of content but also about sharing the sum all the knowledge that is > available to us. > > For obvious reasons, the contributors to the projects are heard. I do not > subscribe to the notion that the "projects" need to be in the organisational > chart. With 300 languages and potentially multiple projects for each language > it is impossible to have equity among these projects. The point that I have > made repeatedly: Commons is not useful in any language but English, this does > not need to be as there is software that works equally well in any language > dependent on the availability of labels in Wikidata. This is just one > example, there are more. > Thanks, > GerardM
"Commons is not useful in any language but English" is nonsense. The idea that displaying "labels" and imposed transclusions from Wikidata would make, say, a Commons image page Spanish description of a PDF book in Spanish redundant, and an English description is all that Commons should aim for, disregards the valued work that many Commons contributors make to keep the project multilingual. I would hope that the WMF board would understand how the projects function and their value to public reuse rather better than this. Thanks, Fae -- [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/Z2E2L77MJG27ZOTWY3NAFER5XPMRZ6R4/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
