Key problem is the existing backlog piling up. if we could just clear backlog once and maintain it, it would be much much more workable.<br> - Cool Cat<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
David Gerard</b> <<a href="mailto:dgerard@gmail.com">dgerard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I just sent this to wikien-l asking for helpers. Presumably there are<br>tags, etc. for non-admin patrollers to tag suspect images. Something<br>like this posted to other language Wikipedias would be a good idea, I<br>suspect.
<br><br><br>- d.<br><br><br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: David Gerard <<a href="mailto:dgerard@gmail.com">dgerard@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: 14-Nov-2006 20:12<br>Subject: Commons needs patrollers and future admins
<br>To: English Wikipedia <<a href="mailto:wikien-l@wikipedia.org">wikien-l@wikipedia.org</a>><br><br><br>Commons is currently suffering a problem of a metric shitload of<br>rubbish and copyvios, and not enough admins to do the cleanup work.
<br>Can anyone here help?<br><br>Patrollers who speak multiple languages are particularly valuable in<br>this regard, but I expect anyone good would be reasonably welcome once<br>they can show a reasonable amount of work on Commons itself. Spanish
<br>and Portuguese speakers are particularly encouraged at present,<br>because es: and pt: only allow image uploads directly to Commons.<br><br><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators#Suggestions_for_administrators">
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators#Suggestions_for_administrators</a><br><br>(I whined enough about it on commons-l myself that I'll be diving into<br>shitwork on Commons soon as well ...)<br><br><br>
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