On 11/12/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/11/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Possibly we should start a separate project ... a service project for other Wikimedia projects to use as an image repository, to avoid duplicated images between wikis. Since Commons thinks it's toooo haaaard to stoop to that any more. Does that sound like it might be a useful idea?
I think that would be kinda redundant.
I think an image should be given the proper QA before it gets spread across multiple wikis where the language barriers will make proper QA difficult.
I don't think I've seen anyone on commons claim that duplicate images are too hard to stop (or that they are a major problem when we can't stop them).. rather, it's impossible to fix the copyright status of an image when a drive-by user uploads since they never set an email, and never check back (most likely they create a new account for their next upload). ... and even when we can get their attention we often find ourselves understaffed in the language the uploader speaks.