On 11/14/06, Samuli Lintula samuli@samulilintula.net wrote:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:42:51 +0200, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Commons is not normal. I'm an en and wikispecies admin. I've probably got at least as much experence dealing with images as all but your most experenced admins. And now I have to mess around makeing 200 edits.
I would like to introduce you to CommonTasks URL:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:CommonTasks.
It isn't ready but the talk page has a list of maintenance work people can do even without being admins. It also has some instructions. Like I said, it isn't ready, and I'm sorry I have lately been too busy to push it forward even though other people liked the idea. But in time...
You want experenced and active admins. Something everyone is short of to do non admin maintenance tasks includeing adding welcome templates? This does not seem to be a reasonable use of rescourses.
I'm sorry to say, but such claim doesn't give a very good picture of your knowledge of Commons. The admin process in Commons is the laxest one I know. 200 edits! I didn't know that much when I applied for adminship. I hadn't done much maintenance work. And I was elected.
I know other porjects with more relaxed standards. We are not however looking at candidates with nor previous background
You need people who can speak spanish. You need admins with image experence who can speak spanish. The only place you can get them quickly is from the spanish wikipedia. Rather than haveing them make 200 edits which are less critial it would be mnore effective to provide links to crash courses in commons adminship policy and then basicaly rubber stamp their aplications.
The reason Commons has few active admins is that - for many people - the work in Commons isn't rewarding. It's much more fun to write your own book, than to keep other people's books in alphabetical order on the library shelves.
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