<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Is there some sort of mentor program in place? Maybe that should be a possibility with a note in the templates and different templates if a badge is present? <br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, December 6, 2008 7:58:10 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less
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The problems on Commons are a direct result of the enourmous growth in<br>Commons. Currently the counter is at 3.5M and that number is<br>increasing with 120K each month. Last time I checked (about a year<br>ago) about 10% to 20% of those images is deleted. If this value is<br>still the same, which I expect, then an unhealthy total of 20K images<br>per month are deleted.<br><br>A significant amount of the deletions could be avoided if every user<br>was helped personally in fixing the images. I'd wish every image could<br>go through a community review but with the amount of images this is<br>simply not possible. The backlog for regular deletion requests reaches<br>to 11 Feburary 2008. 10 months, and I have seen it slowly increase: 6<br>months ago the backlog reached to 30 December 2007, a backlog of 6<br>months. The backlog has thus increased by 4 months in 6 months. If<br>this trend continues we will have a backlog of one and a half year in<br>one
year.<br><br>The problem is not specifically the lack of admins, but the lack of<br>community. Many deletion requests could use community input. Many new<br>users could use an experienced member guiding them through Commons and<br>help them fix their mistakes.<br><br>Unfortunately I see no solution (except, say, disabling uploads for<br>the coming month ;))<br><br><br>Bryan<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Commons-l mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org" href="mailto:Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org">Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l" target="_blank">https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l</a><br></div></div></div><br>
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