Patricia Rodrigues wrote:
That's a wonderful idea! But many times our main problem is the lack of manpower in different languages to actually address different users.
The more I think about this human side of the problem, the more I think we should go back to local uploading. The forwarding to Commons could be implemented by adding a "category:Suitable for Commons" and a bot that scans this category. Then if the image is deleted from Commons, the local copy would still exist.
If we want Wikipedia to scale from the narrow nerd community to a wider society, including elderly, we need to greet them with respect and in their own language. I don't see how we could manage this on Commons, even if uploaded images were marked with the uploader's interface language. We will always have the narrow nerd community too, which can act as admins and an interface towards the international community.