Anthere wrote:
ChitChat with David over whether there is a meta
community ... or not...
is nice, but let's get back to real business for a while :-)
There is a proposal on meta : InstantCommons
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/InstantCommons
I would be happy if some of you could have a look at it (if not at the
technical details, at least to the general concept - it will not take
you much time) and give a feedback about it (here or on meta or on irc).
I am not looking for a comment by those who proposed the project... but
by the others ;-)
Thanks for your feedback.
Anthere
Special Project Committee
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special_projects_committee
I think Instant Commons is an incredible concept. I don't see how it
will directly help individual Wikimedia projects, but it is something
that is going to be beneficial in terms of having goodwill to other
MediaWiki website administrators and perhaps other individuals who are
sucking bandwidth out of the Wikimedia Commons image archive.
Are there any statistics available to show how much bandwidth is going
to serving images to non-Wikimedia projects who are using HTML markup
links to commons images? I'm especially talking about site mirrors (who
may not mirror the images), but other projects as well.
--
Robert Scott Horning