Let's stop bitching at each other and start being more constructive, could we?
Commons is the way to go and it saves a lot of work on and distraction from other wiki's main goals. It's image policies are great - only _free_ media in the broadest sense of the word. The admins do great work and yes, we could use more of them. How can we archieve that?
Getting people inexperienced with image maintenance as admins on Commons is not a good idea. Requiring only a few hundred edits and a few months of activity is rather normal for admin bits on any Wikimedia wiki. There is absolutely no reason to dispute it. Challenges are in the volume of the content and the diversity of the languages. If _you_ want to help, make the admins that do a lot of image maintenance on your local wiki aware of the challenges Commons has and get them to chip in. If possible, change your wiki policy so that it's image policy will start to be equal to that of Commons, so that ultimately, it will be _the_ central image repository aiding the creation of great free encyclopedias, free books, free source material, free and illustrated taxonomies and much more.
In short: "Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." [1]
Do not forget the higher goals and build bikesheds [2] that distract us from it.
Cheers! Siebrand
[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeshed
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] Namens geni Verzonden: dinsdag 14 november 2006 13:33 Aan: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List Onderwerp: Re: [Commons-l] Principles of organisation - who do we serve?
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Not really. If en.pedia stoped switching images over to commons and copied the ones we use back to en.pedia we could walk away from you in less than a month.
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