On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk(a)eunet.yu> wrote:
Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
it to Commons, or make it insufficiently; 2) why
they do not make it ot
the articles. I tried to make the point in the recent thread on the
purpose of Commons, but somehow it did not draw enough attention.
Realistically, if somebody uploaded a good picture (not necessarily of a
person, it could also be a landscape, a PD piece of art or smth else),
and
if this somebody is an active editor of only one
Wikipedia, this picture
has very little chance to make it to other Wikipedia articles, except may
be for the ones which are created after the file has been uploaded.
There are tools such as
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php<http://toolserver.org/%7Emagnus/f…
address this, perhaps they could be more advertised.
That's a great idea. Having a prominent link to "recently uploaded images"
(I'm thinking of something like [[Special:NewFiles]] that shows more than 50
entries on a page with rc-style metadata, combined from the local wiki +
commons) next to "recent changes" on wikipedia would make quite a difference
-- we currently have an extra barrier to entry for people who want to get
involved with media.
Is this sort of change being considered by the usability project?
SJ