Disappointing that there was not a vote of some kind asking the Commons community or UG members to endorse the publication of the letter, The last feedback I left was a request that the UG hold some office hours in multiple time zones, others asked that the letter presented potential solutions as well as mapping out a path we could follow to fix the problems.

People will endorse the letter because everyone who contributes to Commons knows there are way too many desperate issues that need immediate attention. What we needed now was more than just this letter.

On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 at 06:34, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear friends of free knowledge,

Wikimedia Commons is in crisis. There are numerous concerns and
complaints about our central media platform, for many years.

Therefore, this open letter asks the Wikimedia Foundation to Think
big! about the future of Wikimedia Commons.

In late August 2022, we at the Commons Photographers User Group talked
about Wikimedia Commons. The result of these and other talks is this
open letter.

We invite everyone to sign this open letter to show how important
Wikimedia Commons is to you. You may be a regular Commons contributor,
a Wikipedian, an editor of Wiktionary or Wikivoyage, or maybe you
represent an affiliation. We also strongly invite other people who are
involved with Commons directly or indirectly, maybe in the context of
a GLAM.

Please inform others about this open letter.

Kind regards,
Ziko van Dijk

Link:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Think_big_-_open_letter_about_Wikimedia_Commons

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Dr. Ziko van Dijk | zikovandijk.de
Autor von "Wikis und die Wikipedia verstehen"
Offizieller Wikipedia-Kulturbotschafter 2022-2024
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