On 5/5/05, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
The more restrictions you put into place, the more you will find people
reluctant to do something for you. When it is ESSENTIAL that you get
specific information, you make it mandatory. But if this summary is a
good idea, it is a much better idea to have compulsory license info with
digital content. We do not even do that. Pictures without license info
are deleted and some wonderfull people do a lot of good work to get this
info. The extended descripton box is a lifesaver, it allows you to add
these fields during upload time :)
There are already those that blindly revert many changes made by
people they don't know with robot like efficiency.
If we make edit summaries mandatory, we'll just cause newbies to make
something us... and as a result have less ability to discern
experienced edits from new editors.