<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">--- On </font><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Mon, 16/5/11, Cecil <i><cecilatwp@gmail.com></i></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"> wrote:</font><br><blockquote style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><div id="yiv1774314779"><div class="yiv1774314779gmail_quote"><blockquote class="yiv1774314779gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit;" valign="top">There seems to be a worrying tendency to treat Commons as a gallery for non-notable art.<div><br></div><div>It's an educational project, not a vehicle for
self-promotion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A.<br></div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br><br><br>Actually, Wikipedia is the educational project, not Commons.<br>Commons is a repository for media of all kind. There is nowhere the restriction that a file has to be educational.<br><br></div></div></div></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div>For reference, here is the mission statement of the Wikimedia Foundation*:</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">---o0o---</font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage
people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:free_content" class="extiw" title="w:en:free content" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">free license</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "> or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;
line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; "><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">In collaboration with a <a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Local_chapters" title="Local chapters" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">network of chapters</a>, the Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for the support and development of multilingual wiki <a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects" title="Our projects" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color:
initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">projects</a> and other endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep useful information from its projects available on the Internet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:gratis" class="extiw" title="w:en:gratis" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">free of charge</a>, in perpetuity.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;
">---o0o---</p></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font><div><blockquote style="font-family: arial; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">If Commons' mission is no longer to "collect and develop educational content", then why</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">is it still under the umbrella of the Foundation?</font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Andreas</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">* </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;
"><a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement">http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement</a></span></div><div><br></div></td></tr></table>