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On 5/16/2011 11:19 AM, Cecil wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">2011/5/16 Andreas Kolbe <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">There seems to
be a worrying tendency to treat Commons as a gallery
for non-notable art.
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<div>It's an educational project, not a vehicle for
self-promotion.</div>
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<div>A.<br>
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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>
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I guess I have misunderstood the welcome page of Commons for years
now: <br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate;
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font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
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widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Wikimedia Commons is
a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="text-shadow: none;">media file repository</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>making available public
domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images,
sound and video clips) to everyone,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Language_policy"
title="Commons:Language policy" style="text-decoration: none;
color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; text-shadow:
none;">in their own language</a>. It acts as a common
repository for the various projects of the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/" class="extiw"
title="wmf:" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102,
187); background-image: none; padding: 0px; text-shadow:
none;">Wikimedia Foundation</a>, but you do not need to belong
to one of those projects to use media hosted here. The
repository is created and maintained not by paid archivists, but
by volunteers. The scope of Commons is set out on the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope"
title="Commons:Project scope" style="text-decoration: none;
color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; text-shadow:
none;">project scope</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>pages.</span></span><br>
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#wikilove,<br>
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Sarah<br>
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