On 7/17/06, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
It's recommended but not required. There aren't many reasons left to upload free images to en:, but there's some inertia resisting the change. Plus, in the absence of single signon, it would result in many more redundant logins to merge later, so my personal inclination is not to press the issue until after single signon is up and running.
It's not so much "inertia resisting the change" as "difficulty migrating content to Commons". We don't even discourage people from uploading free content to en.wikipedia. Buried in a whole page of daunting instructions on the upload page is a note that "if you are uploading a file under a free license (not fair use!), consider uploading it to the Wikimedia Commons". Another obstacle is that the descriptions of all the licences are totally different on Commons.
People would probably be happy to upload more to Commons if a) they knew they should, and b) it was easier. Moving stuff from en to Commons easily would be a big boost.
Steve