[Commons-l] Commons as an art gallery?

Neil Kandalgaonkar neilk at wikimedia.org
Mon May 16 16:15:53 UTC 2011


On 5/16/11 5:40 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:

> This is really a Foundation topic though. Are projects' main pages there to
> showcase Wikimedians' fine art?

No. This is a non-issue.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope#Must_be_realistically_useful_for_an_educational_purpose

"Examples of files that are not realistically useful for an educational 
purpose: [...]
    * Self-created artwork without obvious educational use."

QED.

Someone else cross-post this to Foundation-L... I have assiduously 
avoided subscribing there and don't plan to now.


-- 
Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) <neilk at wikimedia.org>



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