On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 at 17:32, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi.
One reason why I am a candidate for the board of the WMF is that in my opinion one
function is lacking. There is no reflection of the fact that all that we do is to share
the sum of all knowledge. It is not only about the creation of content but also about
sharing the sum all the knowledge that is available to us.
For obvious reasons, the contributors to the projects are heard. I do not subscribe to
the notion that the "projects" need to be in the organisational chart. With 300
languages and potentially multiple projects for each language it is impossible to have
equity among these projects. The point that I have made repeatedly: Commons is not useful
in any language but English, this does not need to be as there is software that works
equally well in any language dependent on the availability of labels in Wikidata. This is
just one example, there are more.
Thanks,
GerardM
"Commons is not useful in any language but English" is nonsense. The
idea that displaying "labels" and imposed transclusions from Wikidata
would make, say, a Commons image page Spanish description of a PDF
book in Spanish redundant, and an English description is all that
Commons should aim for, disregards the valued work that many Commons
contributors make to keep the project multilingual.
I would hope that the WMF board would understand how the projects
function and their value to public reuse rather better than this.
Thanks,
Fae
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