Anthere wrote:
Stan Shebs wrote:
As a board member, isn't it within your power to pay a developer to
come up with an automated way to transfer images from language WPs
to commons? It's been wanted for some time, and would solve a lot of
our image management problems. Commons has evolved much better ways
to deal with large masses of images.
Nod. But frankly, it would not be considered as the most urgent thing
a developer would have to take care of. Issues such as single login,
or very simply, having the site run smoothly and with a decent
efficiency (images loading time...) would be the priority.
Beyond this, we always fall back on the same issue, paying developers
means more money. More money means having more fundraiser or
fundraiser lasting longer, or people willing to take the time to ask
for more grants (not so many people interested in doing that...) or
simply looking for more sponsors, or putting ads ;-)
At one point, I was keen to do some wikimedia development, so as to help
with this sort of thing, and set up a test wiki, but it's more fun to
upload
images than to hack on PHP...
correct. This said... did you hear about the major uproar on the
german wikipedia due to massive copyright infringment ? It is now in
the press. And the german wikipedia, I believe, choose to entirely
forbid all fair use images at least a year ago.
I've not heard a thing about this. Do you have a link?
Stan