On 11/12/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/12/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Don't. Hard drive space is cheaper than instilling common sense into people. :), but I'm essentially serious.
Hard drive space is cheap as long as you don't consider any secondary costs of storage. Ask Brion how our backups for commons images are doing.
At the worst backups should require twice as much space as the images themselves. If Wikimedia's backups require much more Brion is doing something really really wrong.
Note that I didn't even say hard drive space was cheap. I just said it's cheaper than education.
More importantly: categorization, verification, search, etc are not cheap. Nor is the time of the users we serve. We'd do a great disservice by allowing commons to become a disordered dumping ground.
You contradict yourself. Being a disordered dumping ground doesn't require categorization, verification, or search.
Anthony