On 7/18/06, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
True enough. The biggest problem with Commons is that the MediaWiki software is not really set up to be an image repository. What works very well for articles does not work so well for groups of files -- it is hard to find things which are uncategorized, it is hard to tell when new things have arrived, and unless you have 200 images on your watchlists it is hard to tell when image descriptions are changed (or vandalized) or the images themselves have been re-uploaded.
Yeah, we do suffer a lot from the "man with hammer/problem looks like a nail" syndrome. MediaWiki is our only tool, so we use it for discussions, storing images, source texts, etc, for which it's really not well suited in many respects.
Steve