[Commons-l] Copyright is hard (was Re:Professionalphotographers on Commons: sucess story)

Florian Straub flominator at gmx.net
Fri Nov 9 17:06:28 UTC 2007


"Chris McKenna" <cmckenna at sucs.org> wrote on  Thursday, November 08, 2007 
12:03 PM:

> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Brianna Laugher wrote:
>
>>> People interested in mentors have to put a template on their user page 
>>> in
>>> order to be found. That would be a nice solution on Commons, too. 
>>> Especially
>>> when people have to be active to get a mentor, you avoid all the zombies
>>> wasting your time.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> Go for it. The worst that happens is that noone uses it, and we are
>> back where we are now. The best that happens is people who want help
>> get it and the community grows.
>>
>
> I suggest that if you do set it up, you should add some mention of it to
> the standard welcome template to draw it to the attention of those most
> likely to want to use it.

Good idea. But first, let's collect some ideas and mentors:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Mentoring

See you there,

Flo 




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