On 6/29/06, GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
When you use tools in stead of communication I agree,
the point is
that the Commons community has in the past deliberately, pointedly and
repeatedly indicated that they are not interested in informing and
discussing proposed change to the Commons policies prior to aking that
change
The right place to discuss Commons policy in a multilingual community
with over 600 wikis are the Commons forums and mailing list. Everyone
is free to participate there. If policy is not discussed in the right
places _on_ Commons, then this is a failing of the Commons community.
But cooperation also means participation.
Imagine that we didn't have separate wikis, and only a single big one.
Surely the right place to discuss image policy would be the pages
about image policy? The separation of Commons and other projects is
essentially one that only exists in our heads, with the exception of
separate accounts and some minor user interface issues. Commons is
simply the section of the Wikimedia community that deals with
multimedia. And of course these people develop policies and practices
around multimedia. If you disagree with these policies and practices,
_get involved_.
Virtually all the active members of the Commons community also have a
"home wiki" where they are active. It is not some separate entity. It
is a subset of the Wikimedia community.
Erik