On 02/27/2011 08:05 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote:
Maybe a German wrote this originally, but the rest of
us have had ample
opportunity to amend this. It's not German software; it's not American
software, it's OUR software. Rather than blame those who tried to fix a
problem, let's put our minds to work on coming up with an even better
solution.
Magnus Manske wrote MediaWiki, Commons was suggested
by Erik Möller, and the Toolserver is German. The Germans
have contributed more than most to the Wikimedia projects,
especially in software and technology. Not to mention
the huge archive photo donations and Wikipedia Academy,
pioneered by the German chapter. However, the German
Wikipedia has a different set of standards, more strict rules
for inclusion and notability, and more speedy deletions. This
adds to the "focus on content, rather than people", and when
this is described as a problem on Commons, what I can see
is that users from Germany are the root of the problem.
Spanish or Norwegian admins on Commons are not the
problem, as far as I can see, despite using the same
software. So I don't think the software is the problem.
We do have admins who patrol uploaded images for
copyright violations and lack of categories. Fine.
But perhaps we also need to patrol against unfriendly
greeting messages, and correct those admins who
write them. It seems I was the first to point out on
User_talk:Ies that the unfriendly tone was inappropriate.
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se