David, I fully agree with what you are saying. These are, for not having a proper English term, groeistuipen: 'us' not being able to cope - in the short term - with the screening of added content. We need more active administrators. We do have to advocate on the wikis that are sending their uploaders to Commons. Please do post messages in their Village Pumps so that they can be made aware of the problem. Post them in English, if you do not speak their language. Then you will get reactions from those users you want/need. Staying put on Commons will not solve the problem, IMO. We have to reach out.
A bit off topic, bit here's where I think it's going and how it should be handled. Personally, I do a lot of image maintenance on nl.wp, with the ultimate goal to make the nl.wp licensing compatible with that of Commons so that nl.wp can also redirect uploads to Commons and move it's the bigger part of its image repository to Commons - we have a long way to go, but we might get there in a year or so. We, the commons community, should in my opinion actively approach the top 25 wikis (at first those that currently do not allow fair use, I would say) to start making their users (more) aware of the benifits of Commons. Try and get in touch with the image maintainers there and guide them to get their wiki to a point where they could start redirecting their uploads to Commons, to not make it a scary and/or sudden event for either the other wiki or Commons. Once we are involved in their transition and help them with it, we also have a large chance that their image maintainers will hop over to Commons and do the same on Commons as on their native language wiki.
I'll stop now to keep this a bit-size mail.
Cheers! Siebrand
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] Namens David Gerard Verzonden: dinsdag 14 november 2006 1:22 Aan: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List; Wikimedia Commons Discussion List Onderwerp: Re: [Commons-l] [Foundation-l] Bands from Brazil - Why?
The whole point is to be a service project. All wikis that don't allow non-free images were ultimately supposed to use Commons.
If you're saying Commons really can't handle that, then the thing that's seriously wrong is at the Commons end.