One of the other difficulties is that I'm not sure how one establishes oneself as trustworthy on commons. On Wikipedia there are plenty of opportunities to see how users interact with one another, to see their general attitudes, to see what they're about, based on how they edit articles and deal with the inevitable conflicts and disagreements that come up.
On commons... I've uploaded a lot of things to commons, and I've even created some categories and written some sort "collection" pages up. But these are usually, at most, one sentence here, one sentence there.
What else can one do? I've nominated a bunch of things for deletion which clearly weren't free, and gotten back all sorts of nasty responses from people who seem to think deleting things from commons with suspicious or nonexistant licenses is a bad idea (I suspect much of this comes from either language barriers or an understandable lack of knowledge about U.S. copyright laws).
I don't think it's unreasonable that being an admin in good standing on another Wiki should be a major ticket to being an admin on Commons. One possible approach could be as follows: A Wikipedia admin self-nominates themselves for Commons admin on their own Wiki (i.e., in the same place they'd normally be nominated for admin). If it is approved, THEN it goes over to Commons and some sort of small confirmation process is held (at the moment, I don't know how this would work, but it wouldn't be an open vote, since those people likely know nothing about the candidate in question).
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On 9/13/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/14/05, Dan Grey dangrey@gmail.com wrote:
Exactly. Commons supports all projects.
By providing anouther avinue for vandals and makeing life diffiult for those who are trying to prevent it?
Yes.
slighly odd those if you consider what adminship is ment to mean. Clearly these users can be trusted.
It does no harm to prove themselves on the project concerned. If they are indeed trustworthy, it shouldn't be hard.
takes time out their primary objective.
Well, they're not.
Dan
and people wounder why there is that backlog at now commons.
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