On 7/4/07, Guillaume Paumier guillom.pom@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with this. Wikimedia Commons is a repository for free media. The "wiki" part is very important for Wikipedia, Wikinews or other projects, but on Commons it is less useful. I think a name such as "Media Commons" would be faithful to our goal (free media repository) and would allow us to maybe switch to a better software in the future without having to rename the project.
I beg to differ. Wiki-style collaboration is very much applicable to media files. It already happens quite strongly on the metadata level -- people fixing other people's categories, adding and removing hundreds of different template types, translating descriptions, and so on. There is also some per-file collaboration (improvements to images in particular), and a lot of media-related discussion.
Certainly MW could be improved to better support e.g. multilingual tagging, tag synonymy, media search, and some nice UIs, but MW itself _is_ the right tool for the job.