David Gerard wrote:
On 14/11/06, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
(...and perhaps we can make the pertinent point, without whining too much, which led some people to consider this option: overwhelming copyvios and underwhelming supply of labour.)
I recall that when en:wp was having problems with vandalism of the Main Page featured article image, Commons admins were remarkably difficult to find. So some asked "could we have an admin on en: made an admin on Commons for this reason?" and got back "well, why don't you make all Commons admins admins on en: first."
We've had an administrator's noticeboard for a while now; all you need to do is ask. I don't know who made that other comment.
Some people in the Commons community seem to want it both ways. Is Commons an entirely independent project or does it, as a service project, need to open itself up to administration by people from other projects to keep up with its actual original purpose?
Ahh, but people from other projects want it both ways too: you want our images but jump up and down when we delete them. Yes, we need people from other projects, mainly for language diversity.
This discussion appears to demonstrate Commons simply isn't making admins through its own processes anywhere near fast enough and its processes need radical revision.
We've currently got ONE applicant.