On 7/18/06, Fastfission <fastfission(a)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