On 11/23/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/11/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
That would depend on what exactly commons wants to be. En wikipedia has ~300K free images hosted localy so in some ways commons is already not performing that function.
I would call that a local interface problem rather than a conscious avoidance of Commons.
I always upload free images directly to Commons, but when you click "Upload file", [[Special:Upload]] says you should "consider" uploading it to Commons. Uploading to en: is just lots easier unless you know your way around Wikimedia.
And when you click on the link to upload to Commons, it tells you you need a login there too. "What, *another* login? I'll just upload to en:, it's much easier." SUL! SUL!
I think commons should be somewhat grateful for this fact. It means the images from EN have been somewhat filtered.
By the way, Commons admins may care to compare:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload
The en one has been criticised for its "angry fruit salad" look.
It also fails to include the image details template that commons seems to use as standard.
I wonder if anyone is up to translating the harsh text of the second example into enough languages ... certainly into Spanish.
Russian already exists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Uploadtext/ru
En upload also includes more licence selection traps (I should add some more at some point for invalid fair use stuff) than commons something commons might want to look into