On 11/12/06, Łukasz Garczewski tor@oak.pl wrote:
Lennert Böhm napisał(a):
But isn't Commons supposed to be the repository of images of all the Wikis, so that at some point in the future, all files will (are supposed to) be uploaded to Commons? Finally there's a Wikipedia that does that and you are trying to make them regret their decision? I don't believe this to be a good way of action.
Me either.
However, Artur has a poin there, or rather - he has hinted at a very serious problem we're facing right now.
On one hand using Commons should be easy and fun (it's still a wiki, right?). On thee other, however, if we make it to easy we may not be able to cope with the amount of copyvios.
I am 100% for moving all uploads to Commons, but I believe we have to have a procedure for that. I.e. some things should be done well *before* local uploads are disabled on a given wiki.
Some of those might include:
- translating most of the interface
- translating key project and help pages (the commons community should
complie a list of those)
- translating key templates
- having at least N active Commons admins speaking the language of the
wiki in question at level 2 or higher (where N is... well... I don't know, you tell me ;))
I'm not sure if that's all. Any other ideas?
The main idea is: yes, let's do this. But let's do it one step at a time, based on a common process.
N would be about 1000 for english. Currently less than 500 items are deleted from commons per day. To bost that to the level of some of our pedias would be a massive increase in workload.