On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:42:51 +0200, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
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.
I would like to introduce you to CommonTasks URL:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:CommonTasks.
It isn't ready but the talk page has a list of maintenance work people can do even without being admins. It also has some instructions. Like I said, it isn't ready, and I'm sorry I have lately been too busy to push it forward even though other people liked the idea. But in time...
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:23:52 +0200, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
There isn't anyone advocating that; this discussion started with a Commons admin threatening to block all es:wp users from Commons to stop copyvios from es:wp, because the Commons admins can't keep up, evidently because their admin process is strict enough that pretty much no-one even bothers trying.
I'm sorry to say, but such claim doesn't give a very good picture of your knowledge of Commons. The admin process in Commons is the laxest one I know. 200 edits! I didn't know that much when I applied for adminship. I hadn't done much maintenance work. And I was elected.
The reason Commons has few active admins is that - for many people - the work in Commons isn't rewarding. It's much more fun to write your own book, than to keep other people's books in alphabetical order on the library shelves.