Erik Moeller, 21/05/2013 19:40:
Next time you feel that Wikimedia's community is
particularly change
averse, take a spin through the comments here. :-)
http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633547442506/
38,000 comments and counting. :) Here Flickr summarised what they took
from it:
http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633771838324/ [1].
As a follow-up to my question on how visible Creative Commons works are
now[2], it's interesting to note that
flickr.com/creativecommons/ is not
even in
flickr.com/explore while
flickr.com/commons/ is even in home,
with one random image from the institutional partners shown to every
visitor.
In comparison, content on Commons from our partnerships probably has
very little visibility unless used in Wikimedia projects. Though again
we can't know, for lack of stats.
On the other hand, it may make sense that Flickr doesn't give an equal
visibility to CC works because they're perceived as being of lower
quality on average...
Nemo
[1] For instance, the new Flickr is surely slower: "the site faster, and
at the very least as fast as it was before 5/20" reminded me of "[RFC]
performance standards for new mediawiki features"
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/68562/>
[2] Someone else noted too:
<https://encrypted.google.com/search?q="creative+commons"+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fhelp%2Fforum%2Fen-us%2F72157633531678083%2F>
And the advanced search is broken again for me, as for this user:
<http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633770497507/page2/#reply72157633839533129>