On 11/12/06, Lennert Böhm lennert.boehm@gmx.de wrote:
But isn't Commons supposed to be the repository of images of all the Wikis, so that at some point in the future, all files will (are supposed to) be uploaded to Commons? Finally there's a Wikipedia that does that and you are trying to make them regret their decision? I don't believe this to be a good way of action.
And perhaps the Eswiki decision has showed us an error in our thinking.
It is true that just blanket banning is the wrong course of action, but it does seem clear that we have problems.. Our Spanish speaking volunteers are not as great in number as what eswiki has and we can never expect that to change.
Perhaps we should say that commons is the repository that experienced wikimedians should use... After all, it's easy enough to move content between Wikis.
I think that even without the language barriers it would be important that commons content is a higher quality than the basic uploads on the Wikis. It seems clear to me that many of commons quality problems are caused by ignorance on the part of the uploaders.
Not asking newbies to upload here may be a good start.