On 7/2/07, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh@gmail.com> wrote:

The fact that we have the confusing Wikimedia in our name, is actually
an advantage. If you want to request author's permission for freely
licensing an image, they will immediately associate the name with
Wikipedia, a name that everybody knows. The chance of success is so
much greater when saying "Wikimedia Commons" than "Commons".

Bryan

On 7/2/07, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko@gmail.com> wrote:
> As of Monday, 2 July, 2007, 08:27 (UTC/GMT), there are currently 10,471
> articles and 2,680 files on Meta.
>
> As of Monday, 2 July 2007, (UTC/GMT), there are currently 63,232 galleries
> and 1,603,598 files on Wikimedia Commons.
>
> - White Cat
>
>
> On 7/2/07, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Perhaps meta can be merged to commons? A daring idea perhaps but we could
> more than handle it. There are so few galleries and articles on Meta. A
> "new" commons namespace can be dedicated to that import.
> >
> > - White Cat
> >
> >
> >
> > On 7/2/07, Pedro Sanchez < pdsanchez@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 7/2/07, White Cat < wikipedia.kawaii.neko@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Commons is the "common" place for wikimedia projects for media
> (images,
> > > > video files, audio files, pdf files). It may be further expanded to
> include
> > > > interwiki templates and other goodies when there is Mediawiki support
> for
> > > > it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediagenic is taken
> and we
> > > > (commons) shouldn't be restricted to multimedia.
> > > >
> > >
> > > And Meta is the "common" place for discusions and coordinations...
> > >
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