[Commons-l] Neil K intro / Photography Platforms

[Sage Ross]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Paul Houle <paul at ontology2.com> wrote:

>    What would you say if I uploaded a bunch of pictures of my son to
> Wikipedia Commons?  Would they be deleted?  For me there's a lot of
> value of Flickr being a space I can upload photographs that I choose,
> rather than needing to wonder if "it likely to be useful to a Wikimedia
> Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/> project?"  I'd rather
> give my $25 a year to Flickr than face the prospect of arguing about the
> inclusion of my photos.
>

I'm not disagreeing; that's why I pay for Flickr.  I don't think
Commons can or should try to do *everything* Flickr does, but within
the scope of Commons, there's still room to add a lot of the fun
aspects of Flickr.

-Sage