On 7/4/07, Guillaume Paumier <guillom.pom(a)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.
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Toward Peace, Love & Progress:
Erik
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