On 11/14/06, Siebrand Mazeland s.mazeland@xs4all.nl wrote:
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.
How?
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.
Commons is not normal. I'm an en and wikispecies admin. I've probably got at least as much experence dealing with images as all but your most experenced admins. And now I have to mess around makeing 200 edits.
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.
Can't see since we don't have those 200 edits.
If possible, change your wiki policy so that it's image policy will start to be equal to that of Commons,
No.
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.
Alreadly got that we call it en.pedia and de.pedia. Sure en only has 627,071 media files at the moment but a conserted drive could probably overtake commons. Particularly if we stoped moveing images across. the images also tend to be better organised (although more by happy acident rather than deliberate policy.)
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.
In order to build castles in the sky you need to keep your feet firmly on the ground.