On 7/17/06, Stan Shebs <shebs(a)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".
Well yes. While I may not entirely trust commons I fail to see what it
has done to deserve being on the reciveing end of en's image uploads.
I don't think anyone hates it that much.
--
geni