On 14 December 2014 at 18:27, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
My reading is that your replies have a very defeatist outlook. And it feels a bit like simple laziness ("everybody does this and we can't make messages less awful because it's just too harrrrd"). There are a few clear problem here and they're regularly hurting us. So one way or another, we need to find acceptable short-term and long-term solutions. Instead of being defeatist, we need a willingness to try and try again. :-)
En does. As and when they crack it we can export it to commons.
Why dicey? At a minimum, we need support for basic image editing (cropping, resizing, rotating). And there are external libraries we can likely leverage here.
Its not to bad with images but once you switch to video file size becomes a problem.
Why is that? Isn't the most efficient and most logical path to media
donations via Commons? Is that path currently the least painful?
The reason you go via wikipedia is that they are the project with the missing images.