On 13 April 2012 22:52, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
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I don't anticipate that this suggestion to offer a manual commons upload
for the Geograph users and the high def images they now load would be as
contentious as it would be to resume the bot based import.
The kind of debate that has been opened up here is, in Wikipedia terms,
one of the
oldest (the "Rambot" issue of almost a decade ago). I wouldn't
say that the Commons community will necessarily come to the same
conclusions as (English) Wikipedia did, namely that large-scale additions
of free content should not be resisted simply on the grounds that quantity
is in tension with quality. But the precedent agrees with my views as an
end-user, which is that more images implies broader coverage implies I'm
more likely to find there is some image I could use to illustrate an
article when I go to look for one. (I gave an example in another thread
recently, i.e. [[Lewis Cubitt]]).
Charles