Daniel Arnold wrote:
Wikimedia Commons goals are better software which we naturally don't want to demand solely from others but want to be able contributing to with less friction. Some of our goals:
- Single login
Real soon now. ;)
- CheckUsage directly in MediaWiki
- CommonsTicker directly in MediaWiki (for example via a defined RSS feed that
can be imported in any other Wikimedia or third party wiki: See as well "Instant Commons" idea)
- Checked Versions for files in order to review not only negatively ("this
file needs to be deleted") but also positively ("this file can be used safely and is useful") our content.
Would love to these too; bug me about them in October and keep bugging me until they happen!
- Wikidata in MediaWiki for uniform and queryable file descriptions. Every
serious media repository in the world uses well defined description fields.
That could be some ways off, but useful data that's not wikidata might be shorter term.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)